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Suburban dreams : imagining and building the good life / Greg Dickinson.

Van Pelt Library HT352.U6 D53 2015
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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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