Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture

Rupa Huq is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University. Klappentext Explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK. Zusammenfassung The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination.Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The relationship Between Suburbia and Popular CultureWriting Suburbia: The Periphery in NovelsThe Sound of the Suburbs: Noise From Out of Nowhere?Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban ComplexitySuburbia on the BoxWomen on the Edge? Representations of the Postwar Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present DayConclusion: Towards a Rewritten Heterogeneity of Suburbia

Product details

• Authors: Rupa Huq
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2013
• EAN: 9781780932248
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-224-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 233 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Criminal Practice Series
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs