By Stephen Rowley
Media depictions of group are greatly influential on wider well known opinion approximately how humans wish to reside. during this research, Rowley examines depictions of perfect groups in Hollywood motion pictures and tv and explores the consequences of makes an attempt to construct real-world opposite numbers to such imagined locations.
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The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek derives comedy from taking this reproductive obsession to its extreme, with the titular miracle being the birth of sextuplets. This emphasis not just on romantic coupling—which is ubiquitous in all Hollywood genres—but also on growth, intergenerational relationships, and having children, underlines the role of the family in constructing and reconstructing society. This is not to say that the approach to family is unambiguously positive. Small-town films are closely associated with the genre of family melodrama, and that genre’s tendency to see families as sites of conflict is reflected in many of the small-town films.
Crucially, both druggists are known by name—Morgan in Our Town, Gower in It’s a Wonderful Life —and are seen to be well-recognized by the townsfolk. They also know their customers well, to the point where Morgan doesn’t hesitate to let George leave the store without paying for his drinks. ”) This kind of one-onone relationship with local retailers stands in contrast to most modern experience of retailing. Shops are shown as locally owned, by a recognizable storekeeper, as opposed to the multinational or chain branding that dominates retailing today.
It, too, shows the landscape around town as a site for youthful adventure, with the first scene in Bedford Falls showing George and Harry Bailey, as children, tobogganing with their friends in the woods. Even in this early sequence, however, there is a subtle foreshadowing of the potential loss of the rural land: a sign behind George Bailey reads “No Trespassing—Henry F. Potter,” implying that this is the land that will become the Potter’s Field housing estate. ” Even as he helps contribute to the town’s growth, however, George Bailey clings to the ideal of the town as a rural MOVIE TOWNS 37 haven and shares the predilection of Drake McHugh in Kings Row for using the countryside as a site for seduction.