Making Sense of Suburbia through Popular Culture

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. 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, from Terry and June to Desparate 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.

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Rupa Huqs book exhibits brio and suburban style. It is a lively, engaging and informative read which will appeal to students and a wider audience too. * Nick Hubble, Brunel University, UK *

Author Bio

Rupa Huq is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Kingston University.