Coon, David R.,  1974- <br/><br/>
Look closer :  suburban narratives and American values in film and television / 
David R. Coon. 
 - New Brunswick, New Jersey :  Rutgers University Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction: welcome to the neighborhood --  Traditional values: nostalgia and self-reflexivity in visual representations of suburbia --  Back yard fences: the public, the private, and the family in suburban dramas --  Suburban citizenship: defining community through the exclusion of racial and sexual minorities --  Desperate husbands: the crisis of hegemonic masculinity in post-9/11 suburbia --  Protecting the suburban lifestyle: consumption, crime, and the American dream --  Conclusion: there goes the neighborhood. 
<br/><br/> Look Closer examines contemporary media texts that use American suburbia not just as a setting, but as a central component of narrative and thematic development. It discusses the myth of suburban perfection popularized by postwar sitcoms and advertisements and explores how the directors and producers behind today's films and television series use the spaces of suburbia to tell stories about America as well as critique the conservative ideologies that underpin the suburban American Dream. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461952053 9781306129541 9780813562094 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Suburban life in motion pictures.<br/>Suburban life on television.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN1995  / .L665 2013