TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Othering the Self: Dissonant Visual Culture and Quotidian Trauma in United States Suburbia
JO  - Cultural studies <=> critical methodologies
A1  - Gournelos, T.
SP  - 509
EP  - 532
VL  - 9
IS  - 4
N2  - At a time when American politics has reached an almost uncanny level of absurdity in its self-contradictions, nationalistic appeals, and stunning disregard for large majorities of the population, it becomes increasingly necessary to look for clues as to why various public spheres speak and exist and how those interested in change can locate and infiltrate nodes of instability or change. Rhetoric surrounding the suburbs in high and popular culture provides such a framework, as it maps out areas of creation and consumption that have great appeal but are either logically incoherent or dangerously fragmented. This article enters the discussion through Gregory Crewdson's famous staged photographs before turning to traumatic identity in the films Pleasantville, American Beauty, and True Lies. The resulting dissonant political ambiguity in daily life suggests a new, flexible line of postmodern discourse in the post-9/11 public spheres.<p />
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SN  - 1532-7086
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708608321400
ID  - ref1
ER  -