Scenes from the Suburbs
Scenes from the Suburbs

Author: Timotheus Vermeulen

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2014-04-08

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0748691677

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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? Vermeulen usesDesperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber to explore these questions.

Suburbia
Suburbia

Author: Bill Owens

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13:

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A photojournalism monograph on suburbia.

Secrets of My Suburban Life
Secrets of My Suburban Life

Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1416925252

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Lauren's father moves her out of New York City to a Connecticut suburb after her mother dies in a freak accident. She unsuccessfully tries to befriend the popular Farrin, but only discovers that Farrin has been corresponding online with an older man. While trying to prevent their meeting, Lauren is shocked to discover the man's identity.

Relocations
Relocations

Author: Karen Tongson

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0814769675

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What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angeles-a global prototype for sprawl-Karen Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.

The Sprawl
The Sprawl

Author: Jason Diamond

Publisher: Coffee House Press

Published: 2020-08-25

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1566895901

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For 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.