Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture [Hardcover]

We all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, fromTerry and JunetoDesparate Housewives.
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. 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.

The majority of us live in suburbia, yet there is no formal definition of the concept. By examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK, this book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination.

Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The relationship Between Suburbia and Popular Culture

Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels

The Sound of the Suburbs: Noise From Out of Nowhere?

Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban Complexity

Suburbia on the Box

Women on the Edge? Representations of the Postwar Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present Day

Conclusion: Towards a Rewritten Heterogeneity of Suburbia

Rupa Huqis Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University.