Suburban Dreams - Imagining and Building the Good Life

About the author

Greg Dickinson is a professor of communication studies at Colorado State University and coeditor of Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials. In 1995 he received the Gerald R. Miller Dissertation Award from the National Communication Association and in 2012 received the NCA's Golden Anniversary Monograph Award.

Summary

Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the ‘good life' their residents pursue.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Dickinson
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780817360436
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-6043-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: Rhetoric, Culture, and Social; Albma Rhetoric Cult & Soc Crit; Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique Series; Rhetoric Culture and Social Cr
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries