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- Book Title
- Apartment Plot : Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
- Publication Name
- The Apartment Plot
- Title
- The Apartment Plot
- Subtitle
- Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0822347733
- EAN
- 9780822347736
- ISBN
- 9780822347736
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Social Science, Performing Arts
- Topic
- Film / General, Television / History & Criticism, Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
- Release Date
- 11/11/2010
- Release Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 21.3 Oz
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Number of Pages
- 342 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822347733
ISBN-13
9780822347736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102888856
Product Key Features
Book Title
Apartment Plot : Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, Television / History & Criticism, Women's Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
342 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
21.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.C513w65
Reviews
"Working with an admirably wide range of additional materials, including periodical and advice literature, advertising, fiction, television, music, building blueprints, and comics . . . Wojcik balances her many disciplines carefully. The book's overall argument for the 'apartment story' as a distinct and important genre, and Wojcik's embedding of her case studies in migration trends, cultural and social concerns, and shifting ideas about the city and its alternatives is a fresh and convincing addition to studies of postwar media." - Miriam G. Reumann, The Sixties, " The Apartment Plot is an imaginative, thoroughly researched, closely observed, accomplished interdisciplinary work on the mid-century 'apartment plot' in American film and, to a lesser but important degree, TV, design, print, and sociology. It is a lively and engaging book that both breaks new ground and renovates existing critical edifices."- Patricia White , co-author of The Film Experience: An Introduction, "Wojcik . . .succeeds in demonstrating the value of focusing on the apartment, and mise-en-scne more generally, as a heuristic device. Doing so enables her to explore continuities between an otherwise diverse body of films, revealing how cinema both represents and participates in the production of discourses about urban architectures and experiences. As such, the volume makes a valuable contribution to our understandings of the relations among cinematic representations, architecture, and everyday life." - Hilary Radner, Journal of American History, With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history. She also offers dozens of close readings of films--readings that often contradict (or at the very least complicate) conventional wisdom about those films. . . . Wojcik offers an almost encyclopedic account of apartment-centered films, such that any postwar film and media scholar will find Wojcik's careful analysis useful., "Wojcik . . .succeeds in demonstrating the value of focusing on the apartment, and mise-en-scène more generally, as a heuristic device. Doing so enables her to explore continuities between an otherwise diverse body of films, revealing how cinema both represents and participates in the production of discourses about urban architectures and experiences. As such, the volume makes a valuable contribution to our understandings of the relations among cinematic representations, architecture, and everyday life." - Hilary Radner, Journal of American History, "With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history. She also offers dozens of close readings of films--readings that often contradict (or at the very least complicate) conventional wisdom about those films. . . . Wojcik offers an almost encyclopedic account of apartment-centered films, such that any postwar film and media scholar will find Wojcik's careful analysis useful." - Kathy M. Newman, American Quarterly, " The Apartment Plot is an imaginative, thoroughly researched, closely observed, accomplished interdisciplinary work on the mid-century 'apartment plot' in American film and, to a lesser but important degree, TV, design, print, and sociology. It is a lively and engaging book that both breaks new ground and renovates existing critical edifices."-- Patricia White , co-author of The Film Experience: An Introduction, "Pamela Robertson Wojcik's intriguing book takes an original approach to Hollywood cinema. Her subject is the apartment as setting, which, in films of the post-war decades, she claims, became a space where 'a philosophy of urbanism' could be dramatized 'at a time when the meaning and status of urban living were undergoing a sea change.' Wojcik argues persuasively that the 'apartment plot' imbues films with recurrent themes that transcend genre and director." - Alexander Jacoby, Times Literary Supplement, “ The Apartment Plot is an imaginative, thoroughly researched, closely observed, accomplished interdisciplinary work on the mid-century ‘apartment plot’ in American film and, to a lesser but important degree, TV, design, print, and sociology. It is a lively and engaging book that both breaks new ground and renovates existing critical edifices.â€�- Patricia White , co-author of The Film Experience: An Introduction, "Wojcik's insightful analysis, supported by thorough research, contrasts privacy and community, sight and sound, urban and suburban, married and single life, white and African American neighborhoods, and upper- and lower-class milieus. . . . Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." - S. R. Kozloff, Choice, "Exhaustively researched and brimming with insightful observations, The Apartment Plot is a gift for those intent on studying the architecture that amps the plotline." - Michael Dalton, M/C Reviews, "With her volume Wojcik deftly connects the apartment plot to social history. She also offers dozens of close readings of films-readings that often contradict (or at the very least complicate) conventional wisdom about those films. . . . Wojcik offers an almost encyclopedic account of apartment-centered films, such that any postwar film and media scholar will find Wojcik's careful analysis useful." - Kathy M. Newman, American Quarterly, "The Apartment Plotis a lively and fascinating read. I was convinced every step of the way by Pamela Robertson Wojcik's arguments about the apartment plot, including how it works as a genre as well as a cycle, how it makes concrete and sometimes problematizes an urban philosophy, and how it represents alternative ideological perspectives on post-war adult life otherwise obscured by all the attention to suburban living. This remarkable book offers a necessary corrective to many dominant and simplistic assumptions about post-war American life." Steven Cohan, author ofIncongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical
Table of Content
List of Illustrations vii Preface ix Introduction: A Philosophy of Urbanism 1 1. A Primer in Urbanism: Rear Window 's Archetypal Apartment Plot 47 2. "We Like Our Apartment": The Playboy Indoors 88 3. The Great Reprieve: Modernity, Femininity, and the Apartment 139 4. The Suburbs in the City: The Housewife and the Apartment 180 5. Movin' On Up: The African American Apartment 220 Epilogue: A New Philosophy for a New Century 267 Notes 279 Bibliography 289 Index 303
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-017238
Dewey Decimal
791.43/658209732
Dewey Edition
22
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