Look closer : suburban narratives and American values in film and television / David R. Coon.

By:

Coon, David R, 1974- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781461952053
9781306129541
9780813562094

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

PN1995 .L665 2013

Online resources:

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Contents:

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.

Subject: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	PN1995.9.74 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn863158192

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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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