| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 250 pages) : illustrations. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique |
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Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Rhetorical Constructions of the Good Life; I. Imaging the Suburban Good Life; 1. Everyday Practices, Rhetoric, and the Suburban Good Life; 2. Imaging the Good Life: Visual Images of the Suburban Good Life; II. Home and Kitchen: Building Safe and Authentic Space; 3. Housing the Good Life: Residential Architecture and Neighborhoods; 4. Eating the Good Life: Authenticity, Exoticism, and Rhetoric's Embodied Materiality in the Italian-Themed Suburban Restaurant; III. Consuming Suburbs: Building Sacred and Civic Space. |
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5. Worshipping the Good Life: Megachurches and the Making of the Suburban Moral Landscape6. Buying the Good Life: How the Lifestyle Center Became Suburbia's Civic Square; Conclusion: Remembering and Rethinking Suburbs; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Starting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighborhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches are compelling forms (topos) that shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson's Suburban Dreams offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the "good life" their residents pursue. Dickinson's analysis suggests that the good life is rooted in memory and locality, both of which are foundations for creating a sense of safety central to the success of suburbs. His argument is situated first in a discussi. |
| Subject |
Suburban life in popular culture -- United States.
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Suburbs -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Suburban life -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Suburban life. (OCoLC)fst01136930
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Suburban life in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01201692
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Suburbs -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01136952
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dickinson, Greg. Suburban dreams. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2015] (DLC) 2014044261 |
| ISBN |
9780817388119 (electronic book) |
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0817388117 (electronic book) |
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9780817318635 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0817318631 |
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