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Suburban dreams : imagining and building the good life /
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson's Suburban Dreams offers a rhetorically attuned critical anal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rhetorical Constructions of the Good Life; I. Imaging the Suburban Good Life; 1. Everyday Practices, Rhetoric, and the Suburban Good Life; 2. Imaging the Good Life: Visual Images of the Suburban Good Life; II. Home and Kitchen: Building Safe and Authentic Space; 3. Housing the Good Life: Residential Architecture and Neighborhoods; 4. Eating the Good Life: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Rhetoric's Embodied Materiality in the Italian-Themed Suburban Restaurant; III. Consuming Suburbs: Building Sacred and Civic Space.
- 5. Worshipping the Good Life: Megachurches and the Making of the Suburban Moral Landscape6. Buying the Good Life: How the Lifestyle Center Became Suburbia's Civic Square; Conclusion: Remembering and Rethinking Suburbs; Notes; Bibliography; Index.