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Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device.

Film --- anno 1940-1949 --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1950-1959 --- anno 1970-1979 --- United States --- Apartments in motion pictures --- Appartementen in de film --- Appartements dans le cinéma --- City and town life in motion pictures --- Stadsleven in de film --- Vie urbaine dans le cinéma --- Motion pictures --- History --- 20th century --- Apartments in motion pictures. --- Bostäder i filmen. --- Bühnenbild. --- City and town life in motion pictures. --- Film. --- Films. --- Motion pictures. --- Performing Arts. --- Pop-Kultur. --- Populaire cultuur. --- Staden i filmen. --- Staden på film, USA. --- Stadtleben --- Wohnung --- Woningen. --- Historia --- 1900-1999. --- USA. --- United States. --- Verenigde Staten. --- Performing Arts --- History & Criticism --- United States of America

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In our current era of helicopter parenting and stranger danger, an unaccompanied child wandering through the city might commonly be viewed as a victim of abuse and neglect. However, from the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration of urban spaces as a source of empowerment and delight for children. Fantasies of Neglect explains how this trope of the self-sufficient, mobile urban child originated and considers why it persists, even as it goes against the grain of social reality. Drawing from a wide range of films, children's books, adult novels, and sociological texts, Pamela Robertson Wojcik investigates how cities have simultaneously been demonized as dangerous spaces unfit for children and romanticized as wondrous playgrounds that foster a kid's independence and imagination. Charting the development of free-range urban child characters from Little Orphan Annie to Harriet the Spy to Hugo Cabret, and from Shirley Temple to the Dead End Kids, she considers the ongoing dialogue between these fictional representations and shifting discourses on the freedom and neglect of children. While tracking the general concerns Americans have expressed regarding the abstract figure of the child, the book also examines the varied attitudes toward specific types of urban children-girls and boys, blacks and whites, rich kids and poor ones, loners and neighborhood gangs. Through this diverse selection of sources, Fantasies of Neglect presents a nuanced chronicle of how notions of American urbanism and American childhood have grown up together.

City and town life in literature. --- City children in literature. --- American fiction --- Motion pictures --- City and town life in motion pictures. --- City children in motion pictures. --- History and criticism. --- History

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From the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C.C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" (1960) to the crumbling tenement in a dystopian Taipei in Tsai Ming-liang's "The Hole" (1998), the apartment in films and television series is often more than just a setting: it can motivate or shape the narrative in key ways. Such works belong to a critical genre identified by the author as the apartment plot, which comprises specific thematic, visual, and narrative conventions that explore modern urbanism's various forms and possibilities. In this book a diverse group of international scholars discuss the apartment plot in a global context, examining films made both within and beyond the Hollywood studios. The contributors consider the apartment plot's intersections with film noir, horror, comedy, and the musical, addressing how different national or historical contexts modify the apartment plot and how the genre's framework allows us to rethink the work of auteurs and identify productive connections and tensions between otherwise disparate texts.

City and town life in motion pictures --- Apartments in motion pictures

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Essays on film soundtracks composed of popular music (rather than the composed film score) both in relation to the films, and circulating separately on record.

Motion pictures and music. --- Motion picture music --- Popular music --- History and criticism.

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"Single Lives is a collection of singleness studies essays from the interdisciplinary humanities that explores the last two hundred years of literature and popular media by, about, and for single women in the US and the UK. Independent women have always been a center around which social anxieties and excitement coalesced. Moving between the family home and domestic independence, between household and public labor, and between celibacy and a range of sexual relations, the single woman remains a literary and cultural focus, as she has been from the 19th to the 21st centuries. This collection offers readers the opportunity to uncover the social, political, economic, and cultural connections between the "singly blessed" women and "bachelor girls" of the 19th and early 20th century and "all the single ladies" of the 21st century. Essays read singleness across genre and field, offering new approaches to studying modern and contemporary single women in literature, film, and history. Authors engage scholarship from wide ranging fields of social history, women's studies, queer theory, and Black feminism. The collection reads familiar texts against the grain, rethinking archival resources, revisiting familiar figures, and exploring new sources: cookbooks, ephemera, personal documents, recovered film histories, and forms of domestic space and labor. This is a book for scholars of gender and sexuality, social history, feminist film and media scholars, and literary historians, and reflects the urgent contemporary interest in single women as a political, economic, and cultural force"--

Single women in motion pictures. --- Single women in literature --- Single women --- Public opinion. --- singleness studies, interdisciplinary humanities, literature, literary studies, media studies, popular media, single women, the US, the UK, Independent women, social anxieties, family home, domestic independence, household, housework, labor, celibacy, sexual relations, sexuality, cultural studies, singly blessed, bachelor girls, all the single ladies, social history, women's studies, queer theory, Black feminism, cook books, ephemera, film histories, domestic, gender and sexuality, feminist film, media scholars, literary history, cultural force, economic force, political force, Melodrama, Jane Armstrong Tucker, Betwixt and Between, Scott Fitzgerald, The Sinking Ship of Future Matrimony, Unmarried, Divorced Mothers, Short Fiction, Spinsters, Spinsters’ Rest?, British Women’, Short Stories, Nannies, Domesticity, Cultural Imaginary.