SuburbiaNation: Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth Century American Film and Fiction

Beuka, R.

The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2004-02-13

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781403963406

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-73210-4

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 284