New suburban stories

"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...

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Weitere Verfasser: Dines, Martin (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York u.a. Bloomsbury 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury Studies in the City
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
"An international team of scholars explore representations of the suburbs in contemporary literature, film and culture"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:VIII, 241 S.
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ISBN:9781472510938
978-1-4725-1093-8