Look Closer : : Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television /

Look Closer : : Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television / / David R. Coon.

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In recent years, the media landscape in the United States has followed a pattern similar to that of the physical landscape by becoming increasingly suburbanized. Although it is a far cry from reality, the fantasy of a perfect suburban life still exists in the collective imagination of millions of Am...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Coon, David R.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 17 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood
  • 1. Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual Representations of Suburbia
  • 2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban Dramas
  • 3. Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion of Racial and Sexual Minorities
  • 4. Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in Post-9/11 Suburbia
  • 5. Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the American Dream
  • Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood
  • Notes
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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