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Look Closer : Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television /
This book examines contemporary media texts that use American suburbia not just as a setting, but as a central component of narrative and thematic development. It discusses the myth of suburban perfection popularized by postwar sitcoms and advertisements and explores how the directors and producers...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2013]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : welcome to the neighborhood
- Traditional values : nostalgia and self-reflexivity in visual representations of suburbia
- Back yard fences : the public, the private, and the family in suburban dramas
- Suburban citizenship : defining community through the exclusion of racial and sexual minorities
- Desperate husbands : the crisis of hegemonic masculinity in post-9/11 suburbia
- Protecting the suburban lifestyle : consumption, crime, and the American dream
- Conclusion : there goes the neighborhood.