Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture by Rupa Huq

|t Making sense of suburbia through popular culture. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.

Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. |a We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it.

Find, read and cite all the research you need on. |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. Download Citation On Sep 1, 2014, Alison Bain published Rupa Huq 2013: Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture.

|a 1 Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The Relationship between Suburbia and Popular Culture - 2 Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels - 3 The Sound of the Suburbs: Noise from Out of Nowhere? - 4 Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban Complexity - 5 Suburbia on the Box - 6 Women on the Edge? Representations of the Post-War Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present Day - 7 Darkness on the Edge of Town: Mapping 'Asian' London in Popular Culture - 8 Conclusion: Same As it Ever Was? |a Includes bibliographical references and index. |a Making sense of suburbia through popular culture /

Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture by Rupa Huq