Stephen Rowley, Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities

Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs, Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities, by Stephen Rowley, a lecturer in the School of Global, Urban, and Social Studies at RMIT University, Australia, is a nice and complete analysis of the representation of small towns and suburbs featured in movies and sitcoms during and shortly after World War II. All along his study the author examines meticulously what he calls the notional places (7) (the representation we usually use to mentally visualize a certain cate..