Suburban Dreams : Imagining and Building the Good Life /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dickinson, Greg (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Suburbs > Social aspects.
Suburban life in popular culture.
Suburban life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Vie de la banlieue > États-Unis.
Banlieues > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Vie de la banlieue dans la culture populaire > États-Unis.
Suburban life > United States.
Suburbs > Social aspects > United States.
Suburban life in popular culture > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the "good life" their residents pursue. Dickinson's analysis suggests that the good life is rooted in memory and locality, both of which are foundations for creating a sense of safety central to the success of suburbs. His argument is situated first in a discussi.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780817388119

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