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Visions of suburbia / edited by Roger Silverstone.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.Description: xiii, 313 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0415107164 (hbk)
  • 9780415107167 (hbk)
  • 0415107172 (pbk)
  • 9780415107174 (pbk)
  • 9780415107167:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.74
Online resources:
Contents:
Colonial suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850 and the spaces of modernity / John Archer -- Excavating the multicultural suburb : hidden histories of the bungalow / Anthony D. King -- A stake in the country : women's experiences of suburban development / Deborah Chambers -- The suburban weekend : perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream / Gary Cross -- Tupperware : suburbia, sociality and mass consumption / Alison J. Clarke -- Deep suburban irony : the perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York / Nancy G. Duncan and James S. Duncan -- The sexualization of suburbia ; the diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere / John Hartley -- From theatre to space ship : metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America / Lynn Spigel -- Negotiating the gnome zone : versions of suburbia in British popular culture / Andy Medhurst -- The suburban sensibility in British rock and pop / Simon Frith -- The worst of all possible worlds? / Vicky Lebeau -- Postcript : bombs away in front-line suburbia / Homi Bhabha.
Summary: Suburbia, Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognizable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of 1930s Britain and the unfenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of 1950s Sydney. Architecture and landscapes may vary from one suburban scene to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire: to create for middle class middle cultures in middle spaces in middle America, Britain and Australia. Visions of Suburbia considers this emergent architectural space, this set of values and this way of life. The contributors address suburbia and the suburban from the points of view of its production, its consumption and its representation. Placing suburbia centre stage, each essay examines what it is that makes suburbia so distinctive and what it is that has made suburbia so central to contemporary culture.
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CW038

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Colonial suburbs in South Asia, 1700-1850 and the spaces of modernity / John Archer -- Excavating the multicultural suburb : hidden histories of the bungalow / Anthony D. King -- A stake in the country : women's experiences of suburban development / Deborah Chambers -- The suburban weekend : perspectives on a vanishing twentieth-century dream / Gary Cross -- Tupperware : suburbia, sociality and mass consumption / Alison J. Clarke -- Deep suburban irony : the perils of democracy in Westchester County, New York / Nancy G. Duncan and James S. Duncan -- The sexualization of suburbia ; the diffusion of knowledge in the postmodern public sphere / John Hartley -- From theatre to space ship : metaphors of suburban domesticity in postwar America / Lynn Spigel -- Negotiating the gnome zone : versions of suburbia in British popular culture / Andy Medhurst -- The suburban sensibility in British rock and pop / Simon Frith -- The worst of all possible worlds? / Vicky Lebeau -- Postcript : bombs away in front-line suburbia / Homi Bhabha.

Suburbia, Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognizable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of 1930s Britain and the unfenced and functional tract housing of middle America. The elegant villas of Victorian London and the clapboard and brick of 1950s Sydney. Architecture and landscapes may vary from one suburban scene to another, but the suburb is the embodiment of the same desire: to create for middle class middle cultures in middle spaces in middle America, Britain and Australia. Visions of Suburbia considers this emergent architectural space, this set of values and this way of life. The contributors address suburbia and the suburban from the points of view of its production, its consumption and its representation. Placing suburbia centre stage, each essay examines what it is that makes suburbia so distinctive and what it is that has made suburbia so central to contemporary culture.

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