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Scenes from the Suburbs: The Suburb in Contemporary US Film and Television
Edinburgh University Press 2014

Suburbia. Say the word and a stream of images pass before your eyes: white picket fence, neatly mowed lawns, winding roads nicely lined with trees, pastel-tinted bungalows, bored housewives, conspicuous consumption. We all know what the suburbs are about. Or do we? This book looks again at the filmic and televised spaces we think we know so well. How are these spaces built up? What is it that makes us recognize them as suburbs? How do they function? By exploring in detail the hometowns of Desperate Housewives, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, Happiness, Pleasantville, Brick and Chumscrubber, Scenes from the SuburbsC examines what it means to be suburban today. An essential read for academics concerned with the ways in which our understandings of space and place change, this book is particularly relevant for students and researchers in Suburban Studies, Film and Television Studies and Urban Geography.

New Suburban Stories
Edited with Martin Dines. Bloomsbury 2013

Exploring fiction, film and art from across the USA, South America, Asia, Europe and Australia, New Suburban Stories brings together new research from leading international scholars to examine cultural representations of the suburbs, home to a rapidly increasing proportion of the world's population. Focussing in particular on works that challenge conventional attitudes to suburbia, the book considers how suburban communities have taken control of their own representation to tell their own stories in contemporary novels, poetry, autobiography, cinema, social media and public art.

‘Notes on metamodernism’ | Co-authored with Robin van den Akker. Journal of Aesthetics and Culture Vol 2 (2010), pp. 1-13

REPRINTS:

Supplanting the postmodern. An anthology of writings on the arts and culture of the early 21st century. Edited by David Rudrum and Nicholas Stavris. London: Bloomsbury 2015, pp. 309-329.

No more modern. Edited by Jake Yuzna. New York: MAD Museum 2011, no pp.

TRANSLATIONS:

‘Szkic o metamodernizmie’. Polish transl. Łukasz Kępiński. Kultura Współczesna. Teoria, Interpretacje, Praktyka 133: 3, 2025, pp.

Jegyzetek a metamodernizmusrol. Hungarian transl. Péter Füzi. Forrás (54: 7:8), pp. 3-22.

Notas sobre metamodernismo. Spanish transl. Rubén Oliva. Vebuka.com 2022

Poznámky k metamodernizmu. Slovakian transl. Terezia Klasova. Edice Psi 2017

'Notas sobre o metamodernismo'. Portuguese transl. Milton Machado. Arte & Ensaio 34 (2017), pp. 232-253

Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne. German transl. Elias Wagner. Textem Verlag 2016

‘Заметки о метамодернизме’. Russian transl. Andrey Esipenko. Metamodernizm.ru 2015

'Märkmeid metamodernismist’. Estonian transl. Jaak Tomberg. Methis Vol. 8, No: 11 (2013), pp. 130-145.

‘中现代主义札记’. Chinese transl. Chen Houliang. Journal for Foreign Theoretical Trends Vol. 11 (Winter 2012), pp. 65-73