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“This densely argued, scholarly text focuses on the way television and cinema in this period both presented images of idealised communities and also responded to growing criticisms of such movements as New Urbanism in the USA. … This is a remarkable book and a work of extraordinary scholarship.” (David Mercer, Australian Geographer, February, 2016)
"Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs should be required reading for anyone who wants to explore the relationship between visual culture and urban theory in a rigorous manner. Rowley's analysis of Disney's envisioning of the ideal community - from animated entertainment to theme parks to planned communities - is distinguished by meticulous close readings and his theoretical sophistication. He moves so deftly across media because he constructs such elegant paradigms for comparative analysis. This issimply a benchmark work." - Jim Collins, Professor, Film and Television, University of Notre Dame, USA
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Book Title: Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs
Book Subtitle: Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities
Authors: Stephen Rowley
Series Title: Screening Spaces
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137493286
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50161-5Published: 22 October 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49328-6Published: 21 October 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 272
Topics: Film History, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Screen Studies, Urban Studies/Sociology, Media Studies, Cultural Studies