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Filmurbia
. Ed(S): Forrest, David; Harper, Graeme; Rayner, Jonathan
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Description for Filmurbia
Hardback. Editor(s): Forrest, David; Harper, Graeme; Rayner, Jonathan. Num Pages: 268 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, 20 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: APFA; JHMC; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137531742
SKU
V9781137531742
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About . Ed(S): Forrest, David; Harper, Graeme; Rayner, Jonathan
David Forrest is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research interests are centred on British realist cinema and television drama, with a particular emphases in issues of class, region and nationhood. He is the author of Social Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics (2013). Graeme Harper is formerly a Director of Research and now Dean. Based in ... Read more
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