Making sense of suburbia through popular culture / / Rupa Huq
| Making sense of suburbia through popular culture / / Rupa Huq |
| Autore | Huq Rupa <1972-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (407 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 307.74 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suburban life
Suburbs in literature Suburbs in mass media Suburbs in motion pictures Suburban life in popular culture Suburbs |
| ISBN |
9781472544759
1472544757 9781780932583 1780932588 9781780932590 1780932596 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Copyright; 1 Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The Relationship between Suburbia and Popular Culture; Culture and representation; The suburban context; Suburbia and shifting national norms; Structure and omissions: Popular culture missing in action; Conclusion: New popular cultural paradigms; 2 Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels; Pre-war antecedents: The narrative of English decline in Coming Up for Air; Post-war Americana; Sex and the suburbs; Macabre suburbia
Conclusion: Suburbia in the post-millennial age and continuities with the past3 The Sound of the Suburbs: Noise from Out of Nowhere?; Suburban sensibilities in early popular music; Suburban punk and post-punk; The 1990s and on: Hip hop, Britpop and beyond; Common themes and future directions in suburban pop; 4 Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban Complexity; History and memory: Depictions of suburbia of and from the 1950s and 1960s; Social realism: Slice of life depictions of British suburbia; Minorities and the suburban feelgood film Dysfunctioning suburbia and suburban alienation Conclusion; 5 Suburbia on the Box; No laughing matter? Suburban sitcom; In a lather: Suburban soaps; Genre-bending; Changing depictions of ethnic suburbia; Conclusion; 6 Women on the Edge? Representations of the Post-War Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present Day; The problem with no name: The post-war suburban housewife and classic portrayals; Revolting moms; New formats and retreads; Discussion and conclusion; 7 Darkness on the Edge of Town: Mapping Asian London in Popular Culture Situating Londons suburbia and the place of Asians within itOn-screen Asians on television; Stranger than fiction; New directions in Asian fiction; Suburban soundtrack case-study: Bhangra in Ilford; On-screen II Asians on film; Discussion and conclusion; 8 Conclusion: Same As it Ever Was?; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910138858103321 |
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Scenes from the suburbs : the suburb in contemporary US film and television / / Timotheus Vermeulen
| Scenes from the suburbs : the suburb in contemporary US film and television / / Timotheus Vermeulen |
| Autore | Vermeulen Timotheus |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina |
791.43/62
791.43655 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suburban life in motion pictures
Suburban life on television Suburbs in motion pictures Suburban life - United States |
| ISBN |
1-4744-0090-6
0-7486-9167-7 |
| Classificazione | HU 1691 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786555403321 |
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| Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Scenes from the suburbs : the suburb in contemporary US film and television / / Timotheus Vermeulen
| Scenes from the suburbs : the suburb in contemporary US film and television / / Timotheus Vermeulen |
| Autore | Vermeulen Timotheus |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
| Disciplina |
791.43/62
791.43655 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suburban life in motion pictures
Suburban life on television Suburbs in motion pictures Suburban life - United States |
| ISBN |
1-4744-0090-6
0-7486-9167-7 |
| Classificazione | HU 1691 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818230403321 |
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| Edinburgh, Scotland : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Screening the Paris suburbs : From the silent era to the 1990s / / edited by Philippe Met and Derek Schilling
| Screening the Paris suburbs : From the silent era to the 1990s / / edited by Philippe Met and Derek Schilling |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (234 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 791.4365844361 |
| Soggetto topico |
Suburbs - France
Motion pictures - France - History Suburbs in motion pictures |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-5261-4359-3
1-5261-3599-X 1-5261-0780-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | On the origins of the banlieue film, 1930-80 / Annie Fourcaut -- Lumiere, Melies, Pathe and Gaumont: French filmmaking in the suburbs, 1896-1920 / Roland-François Lack -- Roads, rivers, canals: spaces of freedom from Epstein to Vigo / Jean-Louis Pautrot -- The banlieue in French cinema of the 1930s / Keith Reader -- Julien Duvivier and inter-war 'banlieutopia' / Margaret C. Flinn -- Margins and thresholds of French cinema: Menilmontant, Le Sang des bêtes, Colloque de chiens / Erik Ballot -- Georges Franju and the grotesque genius of the banlieue / Tristan Jean -- Tati, suburbia and modernity / Malcolm Turvey -- A crucible of emotions: Maurice Pialat's L'Amour existe / Elisabeth Cardonne-Arlyck -- Godard's suburban years / Teresa Faucon -- The banlieue wore black: post-war French polar, from Becker to Corneau / Philippe Met -- Erasing the suburbs: the grands ensembles in documentary film and television, 1950-80 / Camille Canteux -- Elusive happiness: screening France's new towns after 1968 / Derek Schilling -- Towers of evil: Jean-Claude Brisseau / David Vasse -- What's left of the 'red suburb'? Herve Le Roux's Reprise as case study / Guillaume Soulez. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480945203321 |
| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020 | ||
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