Filmurbia Screening the Suburbs
Filmurbia Screening the Suburbs by David Forrest, published by Palgrave Macmillan UK on May 3, 2017, is a comprehensive examination of how suburbs are represented in film. This 1st edition, comprising 282 pages, delves into the portrayal and significance of suburban life as reflected in cinema. The book features contributions from scholars worldwide, highlighting the evolution of suburban themes in film and how these narratives mirror the cultural shifts of the mid-20th century.
Readers will find an exploration of various aspects of suburban existence, including the interests, practices, and aspirations of suburbanites. The text discusses how filmmakers have captured the complexities of suburban life, addressing themes of love, ambition, and family, as well as darker elements like horror. By analyzing the diverse representations of suburbia, this book situates film within the broader contexts of social science, human geography, and cultural history, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the intersection of film and societal development.
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In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became the primary location of entire national populations and films about the suburbs began to concertedly reflect those suburbs’ significance as well as their increasingly lively cultures! Suburbia very soon became filmurbia, as films of the suburbs and those made in the suburbs reflected both the positive and the negative aspects of burgeoning suburban life. Film-makers explored the existences of new suburbanites, their interests, their newly emerging neighbourhood practices, their foibles, their fantasies and their hopes. Whether depicting love, ambition, commerce, family, home or horror, whether traveling to or living in suburban spaces, whether exhibiting beauty, brazenness or brutality, the films of suburbia capture human life in all its diverse guises.
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