Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs [electronic resource] : Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities / by Stephen Rowley.
Series: Screening SpacesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015Description: X, 272 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781137493286
- Culture -- Study and teaching
- Communication
- Motion pictures and television
- Motion pictures -- History
- Urban geography
- Cultural studies
- Sociology, Urban
- Cultural and Media Studies
- Film History
- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
- Film and Television Studies
- Urban Studies/Sociology
- Media Studies
- Cultural Studies
- 791.4309 23
- PN1993.5

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Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places.