SuburbiaNation
Reading Suburban Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film
About this book
Introduction
The expansion of the suburban environment is a fascinating cultural development. In fact, the United States is primarily a suburban nation, with far more Americans living in the suburbs that in either urban or rural areas. Why were suburbs created to begin with? How do we define them? Are they really the promised land of the American middle class? The concept of space and how we create it is a concept that is receiving a great deal of academic attention, but no one has looked carefully at the suburban landscape through the lens of fiction and of film.
Keywords
America fiction film media politics USA
Bibliographic information
- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73210-4
- Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2004
- Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, New York
- eBook Packages Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection
- Print ISBN 978-1-4039-6340-6
- Online ISBN 978-1-349-73210-4
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