RMIT University’s Centre for Urban Research is pleased to invite you to the launch of Stephen Rowley’s new book: Movie Towns and Sitcom Suburbs: Building Hollywood’s Ideal Communities (Screening Spaces).
Nibbles and refreshments supplied.
About the book
Media depictions of community are enormously influential on wider popular opinion about how people would like to live. In this study, Stephen Rowley examines depictions of ideal communities in Hollywood films and television and explores the implications of attempts to build real-world counterparts to such imagined places. He focuses on the ideals of small towns and suburbs featured during and shortly after World War II, tracking how these were an inspiration for post-World War II suburban development.
Where
The Chamber, Building 1, RMIT University, City campus
When
Friday 4 December, 4pm-5pm
Cost
Free entry, booking essential
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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Melbourne City campus
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