Look closer : suburban narratives and American values in film and television /

Main Author: Coon, David R., 1974-
Format: Book
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10802947
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: welcome to the neighborhood
  • Traditional values: nostalgia and self-reflexivity in visual representations of suburbia
  • Back yard fences: the public, the private, and the family in suburban dramas
  • Suburban citizenship: defining community through the exclusion of racial and sexual minorities
  • Desperate husbands: the crisis of hegemonic masculinity in post-9/11 suburbia
  • Protecting the suburban lifestyle: consumption, crime, and the American dream
  • Conclusion: there goes the neighborhood.