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Autore |
Dickinson Greg |
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Suburban dreams : imagining and building the good life / / Greg Dickinson |
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Tuscaloosa : , : University of Alabama Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (265 p.) |
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Collana |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Suburban life - United States |
Suburbs - Social aspects - United States |
Suburban life in popular culture - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rhetorical Constructions of the Good Life; I. Imaging the Suburban Good Life; 1. Everyday Practices, Rhetoric, and the Suburban Good Life; 2. Imaging the Good Life: Visual Images of the Suburban Good Life; II. Home and Kitchen: Building Safe and Authentic Space; 3. Housing the Good Life: Residential Architecture and Neighborhoods; 4. Eating the Good Life: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Rhetoric's Embodied Materiality in the Italian-Themed Suburban Restaurant; III. Consuming Suburbs: Building Sacred and Civic Space |
5. Worshipping the Good Life: Megachurches and the Making of the Suburban Moral Landscape6. Buying the Good Life: How the Lifestyle Center Became Suburbia's Civic Square; Conclusion: Remembering and Rethinking Suburbs; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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