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The Apartment Plot - Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 (Paperback)
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The Apartment Plot - Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 (Paperback)
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Rethinking the significance of films including "Pillow Talk," "Rear
Window," and "The Seven Year Itch," Pamela Robertson Wojcik
examines the popularity of the "apartment plot," her term for
stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative
device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s, the apartment plot
was not only key to films; it also surfaced in TV shows, Broadway
plays, literature, and comic strips, from "The Honeymooners" and"
The Mary Tyler Moore Show "to" Subways are for Sleeping "and"
Apartment 3-G." By identifying the apartment plot as a film genre,
Wojcik reveals affinities between movies generally viewed as
belonging to such distinct genres as film noir, romantic comedy,
and melodrama. She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a
mid-twentieth-century urban discourse, showing how it offers a
vision of home centered on values of community, visibility,
contact, mobility, impermanence, and porousness that contrasts with
views of home as private, stable, and family-based. Wojcik suggests
that the apartment plot presents a philosophy of urbanism related
to the theories of Jane Jacobs and Henri Lefebvre. Urban apartments
were important spaces for negotiating gender, sexuality, race, and
class in mid-twentieth-century America.
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