Pleasantville? the Suburb and Its Representation in American Movies  

Oleh:

Muzzio, Douglas ; Halper, Thomas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Urban Affairs Review vol. 37 no. 4 (Mar. 2002), page 543-574.
Topik: U.S. suburb; "good life"; american movies
Fulltext: 543UAR374.pdf (151.4KB)

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The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected bymovies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the "good life." Yet postwar intellectuals have long dismissed the bourgeois utopia as inauthentic consumption centers and conformity factories. Moviemakers have taken these critiques to heart, initially with friendly satires and later with aggressive, often vicious attacks.

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