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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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David Forrest is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield. His research interests are centred on British realist cinema and television drama, with a particular emphases in issues of class, region and nationhood. He is the author of Social Realism: Art, Nationhood and Politics (2013).  Graeme Harper is formerly a Director of Research and now Dean. Based in the USA, he was a panellist at Britain’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2003-2014 and at the European Commission, prior to that.  A former Commonwealth Scholar in Creative Writing, he is an award-winning fiction writer. Jonathan Rayner is Reader in Film Studies at the University of Sheffield, School of English. His research interests and publications span Australasian cinema, auteur studies, genre cinema and the interplay of landscapes and moving images. With Julia Dobson, he is co-director of the Sheffield Centre for Research in Film (SCRIF).

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