Exploring the central themes in modern American cultural studies and discussing how these
themes can be interpreted, American Cultural Studies offers a wide-ranging overview of …

'Suburban Space, the Novel and Australian Modernity'focuses on the dynamic interaction
between suburbs and suburbia as this emerges in a century-long series of Australian novels …

Self-care, self-improvement and biopower, as they relate to the commodification of
adolescence and the grooming of young people as neoliberal citizens, are the central …

Television depictions of suburban single-family homes often involve large abodes and
happy families. The Sopranos' presentation of the family's McMansion—with its associated …

This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in
American cinema from the end of World War II to the present. It builds upon the explosion of …

Urban professionals are critical of the suburbs, but most North Americans live there.
Research has suggested that a critical view of the suburbs also pervades entertainment …

This article explores race as a visual condition in Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017),
demonstrating how the use of photographs undergirds a reflexive strategy aiming at …

In this essay I consider the device of depthlessness in film. I am interested in particular in the
ways in which this device can determine, or at least raise questions about, the nature of the …

The American suburb is a space dominated by architectural mass production, sprawl, as
well as a monotonous aesthetic eclecticism, and many critics argue that it has developed …

The majority of Americans now live in suburbs, and a number of scholars have highlighted
how various pop culture objects, from novels to television shows, have either reflected or …