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Making sense of suburbia through popular culture /
We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives . Rupa Huq examin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013, ©2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives . Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781780932583 1780932588 9781780932231 1780932235 9781780932590 1780932596 9781780932248 1780932243 1472544757 9781472544759 |