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Scenes from the Suburbs : The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780748691678
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Scenes from the SuburbsDDC classification:
  • 791.436564
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S74 -- .V476 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Scenes from the Suburbs -- CHAPTER 1 Pleasantville: The Suburb as World -- CHAPTER 2 Happiness: The Suburb and Film Style -- CHAPTER 3 The Simpsons and King of the Hill: The Suburb as Texture -- CHAPTER 4 Desperate Housewives: The Suburb as Social Space -- CHAPTER 5 Teen Noir: The Suburb as Lived Space -- Conclusion: 'Upward, Yet Not Northward' -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Teleography -- Index.
Summary: This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? Vermeulen uses Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber to explore these questions.
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Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Scenes from the Suburbs -- CHAPTER 1 Pleasantville: The Suburb as World -- CHAPTER 2 Happiness: The Suburb and Film Style -- CHAPTER 3 The Simpsons and King of the Hill: The Suburb as Texture -- CHAPTER 4 Desperate Housewives: The Suburb as Social Space -- CHAPTER 5 Teen Noir: The Suburb as Lived Space -- Conclusion: 'Upward, Yet Not Northward' -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Teleography -- Index.

This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? Vermeulen uses Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber to explore these questions.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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