Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture

Informationen zum Autor Rupa Huq is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University. She is the author of Beyond Subculture: Youth, Pop and Identity in a Post-Colonial World (2006), which was shortlisted for the 2007 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Vorwort This book 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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, Huq Rupa
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2013
• EAN: 9781780932231
• ISBN: 978-1-78093-223-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life