Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities

Rowley, Stephen

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-10-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137501615

DOI: 10.1057/9781137493286

Dimensions: 216.0cm x140.0cm

Pages: 272.0