Visions of suburbia /
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. |
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| Description: | xiii, 313 p. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2559984 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Roger Silverstone
- 1. Colonial Suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850, and the Spaces of Modernity / John Archer
- 2. Excavating the Multicultural Suburb: Hidden Histories of the Bungalow / Anthony D. King
- 3. A Stake in the Country: Women's Experiences of Suburban Development / Deborah Chambers
- 4. The Suburban Weekend: Perspectives on a Vanishing Twentieth-Century Dream / Gary Cross
- 5. Tupperware: Suburbia, Sociality and Mass Consumption / Alison J. Clarke
- 6. Deep Suburban Irony: The Perils of Democracy in Westchester County, New York / Nancy G. Duncan and James S. Duncan
- 7. The Sexualization of Suburbia: The Diffusion of Knowledge in the Postmodern Public Sphere / John Hartley
- 8. From Theatre to Space Ship: Metaphors of Suburban Domesticity in Postwar America / Lynn Spigel
- 9. Negotiating the Gnome Zone: Versions of Suburbia in British Popular Culture / Andy Medhurst
- 10. The Suburban Sensibility in British Rock and Pop / Simon Frith
- 11. The Worst of All Possible Worlds? / Vicky Lebeau
- Postscript: Bombs Away in Front-Line Suburbia / Homi Bhabha.