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    Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs

    Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities

    Stephen Rowley in Screening Spaces (2015)

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    Conclusion The Perpetual Suburb

    In the final season of the sitcom Friends (NBC, 1994–2004), the series’ narrative is drawn to a close by the choice of central couple Monica and Chandler to leave New York City and move to the suburbs of Westches...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    Introduction Visions of Community

    Imagine that you need to buy a suitcase.

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    Sitcom Suburbs

    The postwar comedy Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (H. C. Potter, 1948) starts with a monologue espousing the virtues of New York City :

    In any discussion of contemporary America, and how it...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    The Fake Town

    Immediately after World War II, the financially struggling Disney studio found it increasingly difficult to finance the production of animation and turned to the production of live action films to supplement th.....

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    Deconstructing the Movie Town

    In 1996, the same year that development commenced at Celebration in Florida, the television program The Simpsons featured the episode “You Only Move Twice.” In it, the eponymous family move from Springfield to th...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    Movie Towns

    In May 1943, Life carried an advertisement by General Electric that promoted War Bonds while also stoking demand for their own prod- ucts. A young couple sits on a bench, the man in uniform and sketching a house ...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    The Bad Suburb

    The opening song of the musical Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986) is cSkid Row (Downtown),” which establishes the film’s setting of a stereotypical 1950s inner urban slum. Written by Alan Menken (music) and...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)

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    Constructing the Movie Town

    In Joe Dante’s 1990 film Gremlins 2: The New Batch , the tale of anarchic creatures running amok is translated from the small-town environment seen in the original G remlins (Joe Dante, 1984) to Manhattan. Protag...

    Stephen Rowley in Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs (2015)