Look Closer: Suburban Narratives and American Values in Film and Television

Contents

v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood 1 1 Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual Representations of Suburbia 30 2 Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban Dramas 69 3 Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion of Racial and Sexual Minorities 103 4 Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in Post-9/11 Suburbia 141 5 Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the American Dream 179 Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood 212 Notes 235 Index 257 ...