Format:
xvi, 282 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781137531742
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1137531746
Content:
In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became the primary location of entire national populations and films about the suburbs began to concertedly reflect those suburbs' significance as well as their increasingly lively cultures. Suburbia very soon became filmurbia, as films of the suburbs and those made in the suburbs reflected both the positive and the negative aspects of burgeoning suburban life. Film-makers explored the existences of new suburbanites, their interests, their newly emerging neighbourhood practices, their foibles, their fantasies and their hopes. Whether depicting love, ambition, commerce, family, home or horror, whether traveling to or living in suburban spaces, whether exhibiting beauty, brazenness or brutality, the films of suburbia capture human life in all its diverse guises
Note:
Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 275-279) and index
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Introduction. Filmurbia: cinema and the suburbs
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'Society Stinks': suburban alienation and violence in the early films of Penelope Spheeris
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Dis-locations: Mapping the Banlieue
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Mike Leigh and the poetics of English suburbia
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Estate of the nation: social housing as cultural verisimilitude in British social realism
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The gritty urban: the Australian beach as city periphery in cinema
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The suburban plots of David Bezmozgis' Films
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The living landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich's documentary Triptych
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System within the suburb: Dharavi and class depiction in Bollywood
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Outskirts of reason: The dream in Dias de Papel and Chircales
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Margins versus centre: Cinematic tensions and conflict between the suburbs and Paris
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The suburban Australian gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful
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Claiming the suburbs: children and the Children's Film Foundation in Post-War British cinema
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Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the cinema of proximity
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Sirk and suburbia: queering the straightest space imaginable
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'I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight': staging the violence of the real through 'Candy-Colored' suburban dreamscapes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137531759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Filmurbia London, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 ISBN 9781137531759
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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English Studies
Keywords:
Vorstadt
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Film
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1057/978-1-137-53175-9
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