Look closer : suburban narratives and American values in film and television /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Coon, David R., 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Suburban life in motion pictures.
Suburban life on television.
Vie de la banlieue au cinéma.
Vie de la banlieue à la télévision.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Motion pictures
Suburban life in motion pictures
Suburban life on television
Film
Vorstadt > Motiv
Fernsehserie
Stadtleben > Motiv
United States > In motion pictures.
United States > On television.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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