Format:
Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781472543745
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Studies in the City
Content:
"Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the bookconsiders how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art tell the story of how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art"--
Content:
"An international team of scholars explore representations of the suburbs in contemporary literature, film and culture"--
Content:
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: NewSuburban Stories, Martin Dines and Timotheus Vermeulen \ Part I: Delineatingthe Margins \ 1. Mapping the Suburbs: Cartographic Representationof Villa Celina, Buenos Aires, 1955-2011, Adrianna Massidda \ 2. From Riots to Designer Shoes: Tout ce quibrille/All that Glitters (2010) and Changing Representations of the Banlieue in French Cinema, Carrie Tarr \ 3. EnteringNo-Go Areas: Suburbs in Contemporary German Literature, Caroline Merkel \ 4. J.G.Ballard: The 'Seer of Shepperton' as the Seer of Suburbia, Jarrad Keyes \ Part II: The Past in its Place \ 5. The ShiftingGround of Commemoration in an Australian Suburb, Hannah Lewi and CarolineJordan \ 6.The Future and Come and Gone: Managing Change in the AgingSuburbs, Alan Mace \ 7. Where the HeartIs: Cinema and Civic Life in Singapore, GaikKhoo \ PartIII: Aesthetics of Affect \ 8.'The Shhh of Sprays On All the Little Lawns': Imaginingthe Post-War American Suburbs, Joanna Gill \ 9. 'Nothing Seemed Familiar, Yet EverythingWas Very, Very Familiar': Rethinking Bill Owens's Suburbia, Bridget Gilman 10. 'A More Interesting Surgery on the Suburbs': Richard Ford's Paean to theNew Jersey Periphery, Tim Foster \ 11. Ordinary Geographies: Trajectories of Affectin the Work of Kathleen Stewart and D.J. Waldie, NeilCampbell \ PartIV: Suburban Communities and Cultural Production \ 12. A Chicken Ain't Nothin' Buta Bird: Animals, Suburbia and the Evolving Terrain of Production, Consumption,and Representation, Hugh Bartling \ 13. Kvart KVART: Art Activism at the Urban Peripheryin Croatia, Dalibor Prancevic \ 14. 'MANS IS ON STAGE': Rappers as Disseminators of (Sub)UrbanLanguage Varieties, Nichola Smalley \ 15. The Goat Boy of Mount Seething: Heritageand the English Suburbs, Helen Wickstead \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472510938
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472514882
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472510327
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Available in another form
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.5040/9781472543745
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