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Filmurbia
Screening the Suburbs
David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner, David Forrest,Graeme Harper,Jonathan Rayner
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Filmurbia
Screening the Suburbs
David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner, David Forrest,Graeme Harper,Jonathan Rayner
About This Book
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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Table of contents
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs
- Section I: Suburban Realisms
- Chapter 2: `Society Stinks´: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris
- Chapter 3: Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue
- Chapter 4: Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia
- Section II: Suburban Nations
- Chapter 5: Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social Realism
- Chapter 6: The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema
- Chapter 7: The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis´ Films
- Section III: Slumurbia and Social Order
- Chapter 8: The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich´s Documentary Triptych
- Chapter 9: System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood
- Chapter 10: Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in DĂas de papel and Chircales
- Section IV: Suburban Genres
- Chapter 11: Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris
- Chapter 12: The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful
- Chapter 13: Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children´s Film Foundation in Post-War British Cinema
- Section V: Suburban Imaginaries
- Chapter 14: Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the Cinema of Proximity
- Chapter 15: Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable
- Chapter 16: `I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight´: Staging the Violence of the Real through `Candy-Colored´ Suburban Dreamsc...
- Filmography
- Index