SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction

SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction
ISBN-10
1349732109
ISBN-13
9781349732104
Category
Social Science
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2016-04-30
Publisher
Springer
Author
R. Beuka

Description

The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.

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