Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television[Electronic Book]
- ISBN-10
- 1474400906
- ISBN-13
- 9781474400909
- Category
- Suburban life
- Pages
- 199
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
Description
This is a study of the representation of suburban space in US film and television. Suburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: white picket fence, neatly mowed lawns, winding roads nicely lined with trees, pastel tinted bungalows, bored housewives, conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or do we? This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function?
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- 2014-04-08
- 224 pages
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- Edinburgh University Press
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