Scenes from the Suburbs

The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television

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de Timotheus Vermeulen

Type: Studies
Sujet: Sociology
Mots Clés: sociology, locations
Année d'édition: 2014
Editeur: Edinburgh University Press
Langue: anglais

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Hardcover • 224 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-0-7486-9166-1

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Description de l'ouvrage:
A study of suburban space in American film and television

Read and download the introduction for free here (pdf)

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? By exploring in detail the hometowns of Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber, Scenes from the Suburbs examines what it means to be suburban today.

An essential read for academics concerned with the ways in which our understandings of space and place change, this book is particularly relevant for students and researchers in Suburban Studies, Film and Television Studies and Urban Geography.

À propos de l'auteur :
Timotheus Vermeulen is Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies and Theory at the Radboud University Nijmegen, where he also co-directs the Centre for New Aesthetics.

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