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

By Stephen Rowley

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137501618
• ISBN13: 9781137501615
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"