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Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world''s population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.>
About the author
Martin Dines is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the Kingston University, UK. He is the author of Gay Suburban Narratives in American and British Culture (Palgrave, 2010).Timotheus Vermeulen is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research is primarily in the disciplines of 'critical and cultural theory' and 'screen studies' but he also frequently writes and talks about art. Vermeulen has published 4 books with two more on the way, including books on post-postmodernism, Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism, edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons (2017); Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne, (2015); suburban visual cultures (New Suburban Stories, edited with Martin Dines (Bloomsbury, 2013); Scenes from the Suburbs (2014); and American Film and TV (Gestures of Time (forthcoming); ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater, edited with Kim Wilkins (2022). He has authored close to a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, magazines and catalogues, and is a regular contributor to Frieze and Art Forum. Vermeulen's research has been translated into ten languages and has been cited well over 1500 times.
