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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786555403321

Autore

Vermeulen Timotheus

Titolo

Scenes from the suburbs : the suburb in contemporary US film and television / / Timotheus Vermeulen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4744-0090-6

0-7486-9167-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Classificazione

HU 1691

Disciplina

791.43/62

791.43655

Soggetti

Suburban life in motion pictures

Suburban life on television

Suburbs in motion pictures

Suburban life - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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 usesDesperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber to explore these questions.