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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...
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Introduction Visions of Community
Imagine that you need to buy a suitcase.
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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...
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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.....
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...