Url
	https://wou.omeka.net/s/repository/item/1114
Title
	Filming Postbourgeois Suburbia: Office Space and the New American Suburb
Creator
	Shaun Huston
Publisher
	Wiley
Date
	6/1/2009
Type
	Text
Identifier
	fac_pubs/4
Source
	Journal of Popular Culture
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The article examines how the depiction of American suburbia in motion pictures illustrates the physical, cultural, and demographic changes in modern suburban society. Particular attention is paid to the portrayal of the suburban landscape in the 1999 film "Office Space," written and directed by Mike Judge. The "polymorphous" landscape of "Office Space" shows single family homes along side office parks, apartments, restaurants and retail spaces. How the film introduces new sources of angst and oppression to contemporary suburbia is assessed. It is suggested that the film highlights the fact that the suburbs Americans actually live in are fundamentally different from the ones that once dominated the cultural imagination.
Bibliographic Citation
	Huston, S. (2009). Filming postbourgeois suburbia: office space and the new American suburb. Journal Of Popular Culture, 42(3), 497-514. doi:10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00692.x
Issue
	3
Page end
	514
Page start
	497
Volume
	42
Department or school name within institution
	Geography
Note
	NOTICE: Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version of this document can be found online at Journal of Popular Culture, published by Wiley Blackwell. Copyright restrictions may apply. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2009.00692.x

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