In this book, scholars from across the world explore the appearance, portrayal and significance of the suburb on film. By the mid-20th Century, supported by changes in transportation, suburbs became the primary location of entire national populations and films about the suburbs began to concertedly reflect those suburbs' significance as well as their increasingly lively cultures! Suburbia very soon became filmurbia, as films of the suburbs and those made in the suburbs reflected both the positive and the negative aspects of burgeoning suburban life. Film-makers explored the existences of new suburbanites, their interests, their newly emerging neighbourhood practices, their foibles, their fantasies and their hopes. Whether depicting love, ambition, commerce, family, home or horror, whether traveling to or living in suburban spaces, whether exhibiting beauty, brazenness or brutality, the films of suburbia capture human life in all its diverse guises.

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Chapter 1: Introduction. Filmurbia: Cinema and the Suburbs
Section I: Suburban Realisms
Chapter 2: `Society Stinks´: Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris
Chapter 3: Dis-Locations: Mapping the Banlieue
Chapter 4: Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia
Section II: Suburban Nations
Chapter 5: Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude in British Social Realism
Chapter 6: The Gritty Urban: The Australian Beach as City Periphery in Cinema
Chapter 7: The Suburban Plots of David Bezmozgis´ Films
Section III: Slumurbia and Social Order
Chapter 8: The Living Landscape of Jakarta in Leonard Retel Helmrich´s Documentary Triptych
Chapter 9: System within the Suburb: Dharavi and Class Depiction in Bollywood
Chapter 10: Outskirts of Reason: The Dream in Días de papel and Chircales
Section IV: Suburban Genres
Chapter 11: Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris
Chapter 12: The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful
Chapter 13: Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children´s Film Foundation in Post-War British Cinema
Section V: Suburban Imaginaries
Chapter 14: Sides of the Moon: Detroit and the Cinema of Proximity
Chapter 15: Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable
Chapter 16: `I Looked for You in My Closet Tonight´: Staging the Violence of the Real through `Candy-Colored´ Suburban Dreamsc...
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