Movie towns and sitcom suburbs

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.

subjects: City and town life on television,  Suburban life in motion pictures,  Cities and towns in motion pictures,  Cities and towns on television,  Suburban life,  Suburban life on television,  City and town life in motion pictures,  Suburbs in motion pictures,  City and town life,  City and town life in literature,  Motion pictures, united states,  Communication,  Culture,  Study and teaching,  Motion pictures and television,  Popular culture,  Urban Sociology,  Cultural studies,  Film theory & criticism,  Films, cinema,  PERFORMING ARTS,  Reference

Places: United States