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050 00 $aPS374.S82$bB48 2004
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100 1 $aBeuka, Robert,$d1965-
245 10 $aSuburbiaNation :$breading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film /$cRobert Beuka.
246 3 $aSuburbia nation
246 30 $aReading suburban landscape in twentieth-century American fiction and film
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2004.
300 $axi, 284 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-276) and index.
505 00 $tUtopia, Dystopia, Heterotopia: The Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Culture and Thought --$g1.$t"The hour of a profound human change": Transitional Landscapes and the Sense of Place in Two Proto-Suburban Narratives --$g2.$tFinding the Worm in the Apple: John Cheever, Class Distinction, and the Postwar Suburban Landscape --$g3.$tBabbit Redux: The Perils of Suburban Masculinity --$g4.$tApproaching Stepford: Suburbia and the Limits of Domesticity --$g5.$tColor Adjustment: African American Representations of Suburban Life and Landscape --$tCue the Sun: Soundings from Millennial Suburbia.
520 $aGreen 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.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSuburban life in literature.
650 0 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aLandscapes in motion pictures.
650 0 $aLandscapes in literature.
650 0 $aSuburbs in mass media.
650 0 $aSuburbs in literature.
650 0 $aSuburbs in motion pictures.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
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