David R. Coon

Look Closer: Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television

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Produktbeschreibung

Look Closer examines contemporary media texts that use American suburbia not just as a setting, but as a central component of narrative and thematic development. It discusses the myth of suburban perfection popularized by postwar sitcoms and advertisements and explores how the directors and producers behind today's films and television series use the spaces of suburbia to tell stories about America as well as critique the conservative ideologies that underpin the suburban American Dream.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780813562087
• ISBN-10: 0813562082
• Artikelnr.: 38053720

Autorenporträt

DAVID R. COON is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Washington Tacoma.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood
1. Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual
Representations of Suburbia
2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban
Dramas
3. Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion of Racial
and Sexual Minorities
4. Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in Post-9/11
Suburbia
5. Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the American
Dream
Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood
Notes
Index