Scenes from the Suburbs : The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television.
Vermeulen, Timotheus.
Scenes from the Suburbs : The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (208 pages)
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.
9780748691678
Suburban life in motion pictures.
Suburban life on television.
Suburbs in motion pictures.
Suburban life -- United States.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.S74 -- .V476 2014eb
791.436564
Scenes from the Suburbs : The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (208 pages)
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.
9780748691678
Suburban life in motion pictures.
Suburban life on television.
Suburbs in motion pictures.
Suburban life -- United States.
Electronic books.
PN1995.9.S74 -- .V476 2014eb
791.436564