Filmurbia
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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

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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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9781137531759
Topic
Mezzi di comunicazione e arti performative
Subtopic
Film e video

Table of contents

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