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.
