Making sense of suburbia through popular culture / / Rupa Huq.

• VerfasserIn: Huq, Rupa, 1972-
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Bloomsbury,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (407 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Includes index.; Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.

"We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Table of Contents

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