Filmurbia screening the suburbs / David Forrest, Graeme Harper, Jonathan Rayner, editors.
| Other author | Forrest, David. |
| Other author | Harper, Graeme. |
| Other author | Rayner, Jonathan (Jonathan R.) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London, United Kingdom : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017] |
| Description | xvi, 282 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction. Filmurbia: cinema and the suburbs / David Forrest, Graeme Harper, and Jonathan Rayner -- 'Society Stinks': suburban alienation and violence in the early films of Penelope Spheeris / John Taylor -- Dis-locations: Mapping the Banlieue / Julia Dobson -- Mike Leigh and the poetics of English suburbia / David Forrest -- Estate of the nation: social housing as cultural verisimilitude in British social realism / Clive James Nwonka -- The gritty urban: the Australian beach as city periphery in cinema / Elizabeth Ellison -- The suburban plots of David Bezmozgis' Films / Tom Ue -- The living landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich's documentary Triptych / Annelies van Noortwijk and Vincent Ros -- System within the suburb: Dharavi and class depiction in Bollywood / Sony Jalarajan and Rohini Sreekumar -- Outskirts of reason: The dream in Dias de Papel and Chircales / Albert Elduque -- Margins versus centre: Cinematic tensions and conflict between the suburbs and Paris / Janina Schupp -- The suburban Australian gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful / Jonathan Rayner -- Claiming the suburbs: children and the Children's Film Foundation in Post-War British cinema / Matthew Kerry -- Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the cinema of proximity / Graeme Harper -- Sirk and suburbia: queering the straightest space imaginable / Cody Lang -- 'I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight': staging the violence of the real through 'Candy-Colored' suburban dreamscapes / Rachel Joseph. |
| Summary | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 275-279) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017930579 |
| ISBN | 1137531746 |
| ISBN | 9781137531742 (hardback : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1137531754 |
| ISBN | 9781137531759 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |