Look closer : suburban narratives and American values in film and television /
Coon, David R.,1974-
New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press,
c2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: welcome to the neighborhood -- Traditional values: nostalgia and self-reflexivity in visual representations of suburbia -- Back yard fences: the public, the private, and the family in suburban dramas -- Suburban citizenship: defining community through the exclusion of racial and sexual minorities -- Desperate husbands: the crisis of hegemonic masculinity in post-9/11 suburbia -- Protecting the suburban lifestyle: consumption, crime, and the American dream -- Conclusion: there goes the neighborhood.
Suburban life in motion pictures.
Suburban life on television.