Pleasantville
The Suburb and Its Representation in American Movies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12438528 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Muzzio (0000-0002-3333-0554), Thomas Halper (Baruch College) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 543-574 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Affairs Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10780870222185469 |
| OpenAlex | W1971016289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 32 |
The authors study the representation of the U.S. suburb projected by movies and trace the development of these suburban images from the early movies of a century ago through the 1990s, noting how films have influenced and reflected public discourse on suburbs. Suburbs have evolved, becoming more varied and complex, more self-sufficient and more interdependent, the dominant mode of U.S. residential living, and the most widely embraced path to the “good life.” Yet postwar intellectuals have long dismissed the bourgeois utopia as inauthentic consumption centers and conformity factories. Moviemakers have taken these critiques to heart, initially with friendly satires and later with aggressive, often vicious attacks
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Conformity · Consumption (sociology · Interdependence · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Cinema and Media Studies · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · History · Law · Media, Gender, and Advertising · Philosophy
Framing daily life in sprawl
Projecting nostalgia
The Basics of Sociology
Rural gentrification and linked migration in the United States
How newspapers portray suburbs
Television drama and the urban diegesis
The suburban question
Do the suburbs exist? Discovering complexity and specificity in suburban built form
Teenage wasteland
Streetcar suburbs
Bourgeois utopias
Voices of decline
The social construction of communities
Crabgrass Frontier
Decent People Shouldn’T Live Here”
Writing worlds
Our Town
Borderland
The New Urbanism
The Geography of North American Cities and Suburbs, 1900-1950
The Slow Wave
North American Suburbs, 1880-1950
Moving Beyond Scholarly Orthodoxies in North American Suburban History
The End of Innocence
American Urban History
The Lonely Crowd
The American City
Race, Class and Segregation
Expanding the American Dream
Bold New City or Built-Up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia
Suburbia
Suburbs
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |