Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs
Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities| By: | Stephen Rowley |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature |
| Print ISBN: | 9781137501615 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781137493286 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2015 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.