Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities
Description
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.
Keywords
Performing ArtsFilmHistory & CriticismTelevisionSocial ScienceSociologyUrbanMedia StudiesAnthropologyCultural & SocialPhotographyTechniquesCinematography & Videography
2015Book
Author(s)Stephen Rowley
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9781137501615
LanguageEnglish
