The Pleasantville effect: Nostalgia and the visual framing of (white) suburbia

Western Journal of Communication

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 212-233

  Dickinson, Greg ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethos; Memory; Space; Suburbia; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750091963     PISSN: 10570314     EISSN: 17451027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10570310600843504     Document Type: Review

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