Acknowledgments
Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood
1. Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual
Representations of Suburbia
2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in
Suburban Dramas
3. Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion
of Racial and Sexual Minorities
4. Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in
Post-9/11 Suburbia
5. Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the
American Dream
Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood
Notes
Index
DAVID R. COON is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Washington Tacoma.
"With ingenuity, nuance, and an eye for visual detail, Coon's
timely and significant book explores the tendency
of recent media narratives to question the
sanitized, simplistic myth of suburbia."
*author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral
Panic Over the City*
"Coon's savvy book is dynamic, contentious, and revealing. His
persuasive analyses show how cinema, television, and advertising
have both reinforced and challenged prevailing ideas of the 'burb
and the happy, bizarre, and painful lifestyles that unfold
there."
*author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles*
"Coon primarily examines contemporary Hollywood representations of
middle-class life in the US cul-de-sacs. This is a well-written
book that will benefit a variety of readers. Highly
recommended."
*Choice*
"A needed contribution to the young fields of suburban studies and
popular media."
*The Journal of American Culture*
"With ingenuity, nuance, and an eye for visual detail, Coon's
timely and significant book explores the tendency
of recent media narratives to question the
sanitized, simplistic myth of suburbia."
*author of Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral
Panic Over the City*
"Coon's savvy book is dynamic, contentious, and revealing. His
persuasive analyses show how cinema, television, and advertising
have both reinforced and challenged prevailing ideas of the 'burb
and the happy, bizarre, and painful lifestyles that unfold
there."
*author of Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles*
"Coon primarily examines contemporary Hollywood representations of
middle-class life in the US cul-de-sacs. This is a well-written
book that will benefit a variety of readers. Highly
recommended."
*Choice*
"A needed contribution to the young fields of suburban studies and
popular media."
*The Journal of American Culture*
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