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Filmurbia : screening the suburbs

Title
Filmurbia : screening the suburbs / David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner, editors.
Publication
  • London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Forrest, David
  • Harper, Graeme
  • Rayner, Jonathan (Jonathan R.)
Description
xvi, 282 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Includes filmography (pages 275-279).
Call Number
MFL 17-3048
ISBN
  • 1137531746
  • 9781137531742
OCLC
961004927
Title
Filmurbia : screening the suburbs / David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner, editors.
Publisher
London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes filmography (pages 275-279).
Added Author
Forrest, David, editor.
Harper, Graeme, editor.
Rayner, Jonathan (Jonathan R.), editor.
Research Call Number
MFL 17-3048
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