Visions of Suburbia
Author: Roger Silverstone
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780415107174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Visions of Suburbia
Author: Roger Silverstone
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0415107164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn suburban life and popular culture
Victorian Visions of Suburban Utopia
Author: Nathaniel Robert Walker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-11-26
Total Pages: 577
ISBN-13: 0198861443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of British and American Utopian writing of the 1800s in the context of developments in real architectural, political, and cultural life. The book studies utopian visions published in the UK and the USA in the 1800s by writers such Robert Owen, James Silk Buckingham, Edward Bellamy, and William Morris.
Bourgeois Utopias
Author: Robert Fishman
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008-08-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0786722843
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles.
Expanding Suburbia
Author: Roger Webster
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781571817907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life. The essays in this volume consider a range of representations of suburban life from the late nineteenth century to the present day, including fiction, film, and popular music, drawn from America and Australia as well as Britain. They explore and challenge traditional views of suburbia so that, rather than a location of conformity and stereotypicality, it can be viewed as a site of social conflict, division, and ambiguity as well as a source of significant creativity across a range of cultural texts. The volume takes a thematic approach, considering the rise of suburbia, imagined and real suburbias, alternative suburbias: all of the essays have a strong historical dimension and the overall approach is characterized by interdisciplinarity.
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.
Suburban Dreams
Author: Greg Dickinson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2015-06-15
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0817318631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how the suburban imaginary, composed of the built environment and imaginative texts, functions as a resource for living out the "good life"
Suburban Nation
Author: Andres Duany
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780865476066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are at the forefront of the New Urbanism movement, and in "Suburban Nation" they assess sprawl's costs to society, be they ecological, economic, aesthetic, or social. 115 illustrations.
Home Territories
Author: David Morley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 0415157641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHome Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.
The Sprawl
Author: Jason Diamond
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1566895901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one of gems formed under pressure and that resentment of the suburbs is the key ingredient for creative transcendence. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clichés and pieties and these essays stretch across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
