ISBN:
9781349732104
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XI, 284 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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Keywords:
Social sciences
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Motion pictures and television
;
Religion and culture
;
Culture Study and teaching
;
Communication
;
America Literatures
;
Television broadcasting.
;
Motion pictures.
;
Ethnology.
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-349-73210-4
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