{"product_id":"9780822392989","title":"TEST1 The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975","description":"Rethinking the significance of films including \u003ci\u003ePillow Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Seven Year Itch\u003c\/i\u003e, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines the popularity of the “apartment plot,” her term for stories in which the apartment functions as a central narrative device. From the baby boom years into the 1970s, the apartment plot was not only key to films; it also surfaced in TV shows, Broadway plays, literature, and comic strips, from \u003ci\u003eThe Honeymooners\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Mary Tyler Moore Show \u003c\/i\u003eto\u003ci\u003e Subways are for Sleeping \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Apartment 3-G\u003c\/i\u003e. By identifying the apartment plot as a film genre, Wojcik reveals affinities between movies generally viewed as belonging to such distinct genres as film noir, romantic comedy, and melodrama. She analyzes the apartment plot as part of a mid-twentieth-century urban discourse, showing how it offers a vision of home centered on values of community, visibility, contact, mobility, impermanence, and porousness that contrasts with views of home as private, stable, and family-based. Wojcik suggests that the apartment plot presents a philosophy of urbanism related to the theories of Jane Jacobs and Henri Lefebvre. Urban apartments were important spaces for negotiating gender, sexuality, race, and class in mid-twentieth-century America.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070575067376,"sku":"9780822392989","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780822392989_p0.jpg?v=1763751024","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780822392989","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}