Neighborhood of fear : the suburban crisis in American Culture, 1975-2001 / Kyle Riismandel.

By:

Riismandel, Kyle, 1978- [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781421439556

Other title:

Suburban crisis in American Culture, 1975-2001

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HN90 .N454 2020
HT352

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Contents:

The neighborhood of fear : toxic suburbia, affective practice, and the invisible prison -- "Fear stalks the streets" : home security, kidnapping, and the making of the carceral suburb -- Punks, mallrats, and out-of-control teenagers : production and regulation of suburban public space -- Parental advisory -- explicit content : popular occulture and (re)possessing the suburban home.

Subject: "This is a work of American history and cultural studies in which the author examines how Americans imagined and regulated suburban space in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1970s, rising crime, environmental threats, and conflicts over the use of public space made suburbanites feel threatened. And the technologies of cable television, VCRs, and video games brought representations of these threats into suburban homes. The author interprets how suburbanites responded to these perceived threats through a strategy of "productive victimization" to protect their communities"--

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HN90.6 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		on1203116635

Includes bibliographies and index.

Age of the NIMBY : environmental hazard and spatial power on the suburban landscape -- The neighborhood of fear : toxic suburbia, affective practice, and the invisible prison -- "Fear stalks the streets" : home security, kidnapping, and the making of the carceral suburb -- Punks, mallrats, and out-of-control teenagers : production and regulation of suburban public space -- Parental advisory -- explicit content : popular occulture and (re)possessing the suburban home.

"This is a work of American history and cultural studies in which the author examines how Americans imagined and regulated suburban space in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1970s, rising crime, environmental threats, and conflicts over the use of public space made suburbanites feel threatened. And the technologies of cable television, VCRs, and video games brought representations of these threats into suburban homes. The author interprets how suburbanites responded to these perceived threats through a strategy of "productive victimization" to protect their communities"--

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