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oapen-20.500.12657-587422022-10-15T03:18:59Z Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture Huq, Rupa Urban communities Popular culture bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSG Urban communities This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form. 2022-10-14T14:53:02Z 2022-10-14T14:53:02Z 2013 book ONIX_20221014_9781780932590_73 9781780932590 9781780932583 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58742 eng application/pdf n/a 9781780932590.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781472544759 10.5040/9781472544759 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781780932590 9781780932583 Bloomsbury Academic 192 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.
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