Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood's Ideal Communities - Screening Spaces

Rowley, Stephen

1st ed. 2015

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9781137501615
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:	22 Oct 2015
Edition:	1st ed. 2015
DEWEY:	791.4362
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	494g
Height:	149mm
Width:	223mm
Spine width:	24mm