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SuburbiaNation : reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film / Robert Beuka.
Van Pelt Library PS374.S82 B48 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beuka, Robert, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Suburban life in literature.
- Motion pictures--United States--History.
- Motion pictures.
- United States.
- History.
- Landscapes in motion pictures.
- Landscapes in literature.
- Suburbs in mass media.
- Suburbs in literature.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Suburbia nation
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
- Summary:
- A fascinating exploration of the utopian model of the suburb and its significance in American culture. The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs than in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is an idea that is receiving a great deal of attention, but SuburbiaNation is the first book to look carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film. Robert Beuka weaves together such classics as It's a Wonderful Life, The Stepford Wives, Rabbit, Run, The Great Gatsby, The Graduate, and House Party to discuss the utopian model of the suburb and its significance in American culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1403963673
- 1403963401
- OCLC:
- 52471375
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