Filmurbia Screening the Suburbs
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
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Edited by David Forrest, Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner
Filmurbia
David Forrest • Graeme Harper • Jonathan Rayner Editors
Filmurbia Screening the Suburbs
Editors David Forrest The School of English The University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom
Graeme Harper Honors College Oakland University Rochester, Michigan USA
Jonathan Rayner The School of English The University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom
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CONTENTS
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Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs David Forrest, Graeme Harper, and Jonathan Rayner
Section I 2
Suburban Realisms
‘Society Stinks’: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris John Taylor
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Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue Julia Dobson
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Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia David Forrest
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Suburban Nations
Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social Realism Clive James Nwonka
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The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema Elizabeth Ellison The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis’ Films Tom Ue
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The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmr
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