Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture

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Huq, Rupa
Language
English
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Résumé
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.
URI
https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/178190
Keywords
Urban communities; Popular culture; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities
DOI
10.5040/9781472544759
ISBN
9781780932590, 9781780932583
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher website
http://www.bloomsbury.com/academic
Publication date and place
London, 2013
Imprint
Bloomsbury Academic
Pages
192