About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 114. Chapters: Films about suburbia, Suburbs in New Zealand, Suburbs in Zimbabwe, Suburbs in the United Kingdom, The Graduate, American Beauty, Heathers, Blue Velvet, American Graffiti, Apt Pupil, Ordinary People, Donnie Darko, The Truman Show, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Clerks, Revolutionary Road, Edward Scissorhands, A Serious Man, The 'Burbs, The Chumscrubber, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Stepford Wives, Over the Hedge, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Ice Storm, Pleasantville, Far from Heaven, Little Children, The Virgin Suicides, The Brady Bunch Movie, Happiness, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Arlington Road, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Neighbors, Goodbye, Columbus, Southwick, Ooty, Mbizo, Coneheads, The Swimmer, The Money Pit, Radiant City, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Over the Edge, A Hole in One, Avalon, Deficit, Three Men on a Horse, Love Me Not, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The End of Suburbia, The Adjuster, Snout house, Judy Berlin, Collaborator, Solway, New Zealand, Karoro, New Zealand, Cobden, New Zealand, Lansdowne, Wellington, Van Nuys Blvd., Coopers Edge, Maraenui, Amaveni, Mahora, New Zealand. Excerpt: American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). Annette Bening co-stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane; Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper and Allison Janney also feature. The film has been described by academics as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction; analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, beauty, materialism, self-liberation and redemption. Ball b...
