Suburban Nightmares
Author: Larry Hancock
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 8
ISBN-13:
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Suburban Nightmares
Author: Michael Cherkas
Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13: 9781561631667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifties - a time of mindless happiness masking fear. Fear of the bomb, fear of commies, fear of dandelions.
Suburban Nightmares
Author: Larry Hancock
Publisher: Comics Lit
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780918348807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifties - a time of mindless happiness masking fear. Fear of the bomb, fear of commies, fear of dandelions.
American Dreams, Suburban Nightmares: Suburbia as a Narrative Space between Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary American Cinema
Author: Melanie Smicek
Publisher: diplom.de
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 69
ISBN-13: 3954898217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe suburban landscape is inseparable from American culture. Suburbia does not only relate to the geographical concept, but also describes a cultural space incorporating people’s hopes for a safe and prosperous life. Suburbia marks a dynamic ideological space constantly influenced and recreated by both the events of everyday life and artistic discourse. Fictional texts do not merely represent suburbia, but also have a decisive role in the shaping of suburban spaces. The widely held idealized image of suburbia evolved in the 1950s. Today, reality deviates from the concept of suburbs projected back then, due to e.g. high divorce rates and an increase of crime. Nevertheless, the nostalgic view of the suburbs as the “Promised Land" has survived. Postwar critics object to this perception, considering the suburbs rather as depressing landscapes of mass-consumption, conformity and alienation. This book exemplifies the dualistic representation of suburbs in contemporary American cinema by analyzing Pleasantville, The Truman Show and American Beauty. It examines how utopian concepts of suburbia are created culturally and psychologically in the films, and how the underlying anxieties of the suburban experience, visualized by the dystopian narratives, challenge this ideal.
Bourgeois Nightmares
Author: Robert M. Fogelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2005-10-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0300126999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents’ dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that embodied them, are the subject of Robert M. Fogelson’s fascinating new book. As Fogelson reveals, suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, especially the encroachment of “undesirable” people and activities, by imposing a wide range of restrictions on the lots. These restrictions ranged from mandating minimum costs and architectural styles for the houses to forbidding the owners to sell or lease their property to any member of a host of racial, ethnic, and religious groups. These restrictions, many of which are still commonly employed, tell us as much about the complexities of American society today as about its complexities a century ago.
Suburban Hell
Author: Maureen Kilmer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0593422384
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Chicago cul-de-sac is about to get a new neighbor...of the demonic kind. Amy Foster considers herself lucky. After she left the city and moved to the suburbs, she found her place quickly with neighbors Liz, Jess, and Melissa, snarking together from the outskirts of the PTA crowd. One night during their monthly wine get-together, the crew concoct a plan for a clubhouse She Shed in Liz’s backyard—a space for just them, no spouses or kids allowed. But the night after they christen the She Shed, things start to feel . . . off. They didn’t expect Liz’s little home-improvement project to release a demonic force that turns their quiet enclave into something out of a nightmare. And that’s before the homeowners’ association gets wind of it. Even the calmest moms can’t justify the strange burn marks, self-moving dolls, and horrible smells surrounding their possessed friend, Liz. Together, Amy, Jess, and Melissa must fight the evil spirit to save Liz and the neighborhood . . . before the suburbs go completely to hell.
Urban Nightmares
Author: Steve Macek
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781452908694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScenes from the Suburbs
Author: Vermeulen Timotheus Vermeulen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-04-08
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0748691685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSuburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: white picket fence, neatly mowed lawns, winding roads nicely lined with trees, pastel-tinted bungalows, bored housewives, conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or do we?This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? By exploring in detail the hometowns of Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber, Scenes from the Suburbs examines what it means to be suburban today.An essential read for academics concerned with the ways in which our understandings of space and place change, this book will be particularly relevant for students and researchers in Suburban Studies, Film and Television Studies and Urban Geography.
Suburban Secrets
Author: Amanda Lyons
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-07-22
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781515193074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the minds of T.S. Woolard, Michael Kanuckel, Essel Pratt, Zoltan Komor, Kevin Candela, Tina Piney, Jorge Palacios, Alice J. Black, C.S. Nelson, Amanda M. Lyons, Michael Noe, Brian Barr, Dani Brown, Kent Hill, Dixie Pinoit, Richard Ramsey, Jim Goforth, and Justin Hunter. Suburbia was supposed to be the idle American dream, the payoff for all our hard work and ingenuity, but it was never quite what it made itself out to be, was it? Down beneath the facade of green perfectly trimmed lawns, cookie cutter houses, neighborhood associations and the quiet late night streets are a thousand terrible secrets, each of them darker than the last. Here you will encounter tales of horror and the bizarre, forbidden towns, costly homeowner's associations, illicit blood sports, the occult, and all the bitter fruit of hidden monsters. Welcome to our neighborhood of nightmares!
Suburban Escape
Author: Ann M. Wolfe
Publisher: Center Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13:
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