TY - BOOK AU - Coon,David R. TI - Look closer: suburban narratives and American values in film and television SN - 9781461952053 AV - PN1995 .L665 2013 PY - 2013/// CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Suburban life in motion pictures KW - Suburban life on television KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=662993&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -