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Scenes from the Suburbs: Suburban Space in Us Film and Television

By (author) Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies and Theory Timotheus Vermeulen





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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.

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Publisher | Edinburgh University Press
Published date | 6 Aug 2014
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Pages | 208
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ISBN | 978-0-7486-9167-8
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BISAC | performing arts / film & video / history & criticism


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