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Suburban dreams : imagining and building the good life / Greg Dickinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Greg, 1964-
- Series:
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Suburban life--United States.
- Suburban life.
- Suburban life in popular culture.
- Suburbs--Social aspects.
- Suburbs.
- United States.
- Suburbs--Social aspects--United States.
- Suburban life in popular culture--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- I Imaging the Suburban Good Life
- 1 Everyday Practices, Rhetoric, and the Suburban Good Life 17
- 2 Imaging the Good Life: Visual Images of the Suburban Good Life 39
- II Home And Kitchen: Building Safe and Authentic Space
- 3 Housing the Good Life: Residential Architecture and Neighborhoods 65
- 4 Eating the Good Life: Authenticity Exoticism, and Rhetoric's Embodied Materiality in the Italian-Themed Suburban Restaurant 97
- III Consuming Suburbs: Building Sacred and Civic Space
- 5 Worshipping the Good Life: Megachurches and the Making of the Suburban Moral Landscape 125
- 6 Buying the Good Life: How the Lifestyle Center Became Suburbia's Civic Square 154.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817318635
- 0817318631
- OCLC:
- 896127036
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