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- catalog abstract "Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depiction of suburbia in prominent works of American fiction and film, the suburbs are also home to dysfunctional families, broken communities, and widespread misery. Clearly, despite the continued popularity of the suburbs as a place to live, the prevailing image of suburbia has changed markedly since the days of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. In this book, Robert Beuka argues that in order to begin to understand our conflicted relationship toward the suburbs, we need to understand how suburbia has come to be defined through its representation in the popular media and arts. SuburbiaNation looks carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film, and Beuka weaves together such classics as It's a Wonderful Life, The Stepford Wives, The Great Gatsby, The Swimmer, The Graduate, and House Party to discuss the suburb and its significance in American culture.".
- catalog alternative "Reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film".
- catalog alternative "Suburbia nation".
- catalog contributor b13070025.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description "Green lawns, swimming pools, backyard barbecues: welcome to suburbia, the promised land of the American middle class. Or is it? To judge by the depiction of suburbia in prominent works of American fiction and film, the suburbs are also home to dysfunctional families, broken communities, and widespread misery. Clearly, despite the continued popularity of the suburbs as a place to live, the prevailing image of suburbia has changed markedly since the days of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best. In this book, Robert Beuka argues that in order to begin to understand our conflicted relationship toward the suburbs, we need to understand how suburbia has come to be defined through its representation in the popular media and arts. SuburbiaNation looks carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film, and Beuka weaves together such classics as It's a Wonderful Life, The Stepford Wives, The Great Gatsby, The Swimmer, The Graduate, and House Party to discuss the suburb and its significance in American culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index.".
- catalog description "Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: The Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Culture and Thought -- 1. "The hour of a profound human change": Transitional Landscapes and the Sense of Place in Two Proto-Suburban Narratives -- 2. Finding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever, Class Distinction, and the Postwar Suburban Landscape -- 3. Babbit Redux: The Perils of Suburban Masculinity -- 4. Approaching Stepford: Suburbia and the Limits of Domesticity -- 5. Color Adjustment: African American Representations of Suburban Life and Landscape -- Cue the Sun: Soundings from Millennial Suburbia.".
- catalog extent "xi, 284 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "1403963401 (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "1403963673 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "9781403963406 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.509321733 21".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes in literature.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes in motion pictures.".
- catalog subject "Motion pictures United States History.".
- catalog subject "PS374.S82 B48 2004".
- catalog subject "Suburban life in literature.".
- catalog subject "Suburbs in literature.".
- catalog subject "Suburbs in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Suburbs in motion pictures.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Utopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: The Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Culture and Thought -- 1. "The hour of a profound human change": Transitional Landscapes and the Sense of Place in Two Proto-Suburban Narratives -- 2. Finding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever, Class Distinction, and the Postwar Suburban Landscape -- 3. Babbit Redux: The Perils of Suburban Masculinity -- 4. Approaching Stepford: Suburbia and the Limits of Domesticity -- 5. Color Adjustment: African American Representations of Suburban Life and Landscape -- Cue the Sun: Soundings from Millennial Suburbia.".
- catalog title "Reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film".
- catalog title "Suburbia nation".
- catalog title "SuburbiaNation : reading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film / Robert Beuka.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".