Scenes from the Suburbs
Title | Scenes from the Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Timotheus Vermeulen |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0748691677 |
This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? Vermeulen usesDesperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber to explore these questions.
The End of the Suburbs
Title | The End of the Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Leigh Gallagher |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 274 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1591846978 |
Originally published in hardcover in 2013.
Scenes from the Suburbs
Title | Scenes from the Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 199 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Suburban life |
ISBN | 9781474400909 |
This is a study of the representation of suburban space in US film and television. Suburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: white picket fence, neatly mowed lawns, winding roads nicely lined with trees, pastel tinted bungalows, bored housewives, conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or do we? This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function?
Sunday Scenes in London and Its Suburbs
Title | Sunday Scenes in London and Its Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Percy Cruikshank |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 118 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN |
Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs
Title | Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs PDF eBook |
Author | Eric Eidelstein |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | 144 |
Release | 2017-09-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1501336479 |
The Suburbs is an incredibly sentimental and nostalgic album, which generally moved critics but was jarring to others. But it also made a heavy impact on fans and – to the surprise of many – won Album of the Year at the 2011 Grammy Awards. This immensely visceral album triggers a sincere celebration of not formative years spent in a cookie-cutter development, but of feeling self-important, immortal, and desperate to escape. It examines youth and amplifies an innate sense of longing and remembrance. Eric Eidelstein's The Suburbs explores this weird, utopic recollection of youth by comparing the album to suburban scenes in film and television, such as Blue Velvet, Mad Men, The Americans, and Spike Jonze's Scenes from the Suburbs. Through the close examination of film and televised depictions of the suburbs, both past and present, Eidelstein delves into the societal factors and artistic depictions that make the suburbs such a fascinating cultural construct, and uncovers why the album creates such a relatable and universal sense of reminiscence.
Sunday Scenes in London and its Suburbs. (With twelve illustrations on stone.) By P. Cruikshank
Title | Sunday Scenes in London and its Suburbs. (With twelve illustrations on stone.) By P. Cruikshank PDF eBook |
Author | Percy Cruikshank |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 104 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Race and the Suburbs in American Film
Title | Race and the Suburbs in American Film PDF eBook |
Author | Merrill Schleier |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2021-07-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1438484488 |
This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of interest in the suburbs in film, television, and fiction in the last fifteen years, concentrating exclusively on the relationship of race to the built environment. Suburb films began as a cycle in response to both America's changing urban geography and the re-segregation of its domestic spaces in the postwar era, which excluded African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx from the suburbs while buttressing whiteness. By defying traditional categories and chronologies in cinema studies, the contributors explore the myriad ways suburban spaces and racialized bodies in film mediate each other. Race and the Suburbs in American Film is a stimulating resource for considering the manner in which race is foundational to architecture and urban geography, which is reflected, promoted, and challenged in cinematic representations.