The apartment plot : : urban living in American film and popular culture, 1945 to 1975 / / Pamela Robertson Wojcik.
Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (342 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based on print version record |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a philosophy of urbanism
- A primer in urbanism : Rear Window's archetypal apartment plot
- "We like our apartment" : the playboy indoors
- The great reprieve : modernity, femininity, and the apartment
- The suburbs in the city : the housewife and the apartment
- Movin' on up : the African american apartment.