2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban Dramas

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Welcome to the Neighborhood 1
5. 1. Traditional Values: Nostalgia and Self-Reflexivity in Visual Representations of Suburbia 30
6. 2. Back Yard Fences: The Public, the Private, and the Family in Suburban Dramas 69
7. 3. Suburban Citizenship: Defining Community through the Exclusion of Racial and Sexual Minorities 103
8. 4. Desperate Husbands: The Crisis of Hegemonic Masculinity in Post-9/11 Suburbia 141
9. 5. Protecting the Suburban Lifestyle: Consumption, Crime, and the American Dream 179
10. Conclusion: There Goes the Neighborhood 212
11. Notes 235
12. Index 257
13. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 271