SuburbiaNation

Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction

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Paperback, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2004
ISBN13: 9781403963406
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The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.

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ISBN13:9781403963406
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: The Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Culture and Thought 'The hour of a profound human change': Transitional Landscapes and the Sense of Place in Two Proto-Suburban Narratives Finding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever, Class Distinction, and the Postwar Suburban Landscape Honey, I'm Home (?): Rabbit, Benjamin, and the Imperiled Suburban Male Approaching Stepford: Gender, Suburbia, and the Politics of Domesticity Color Adjustment: African American Representations of Suburban Life and Landscape Conclusion

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