Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Television and Suburbia

As film constructed the archetypal city:


cityscape

Television shaped our understanding of suburban space:

Levittown, NY

Postwar Levittown, NY


Levittown, NJ (now known as Willingboro)

Levittown, PA
Levittown, PA

Opening Credits from the Showtime series Weeds



Opening credits from The Wonder Years



Show ran from 1988-1993 on ABC, but each season was set 20 years before (1968-1973) in a suburban American town.

Welcome to the Suburbs



A made-for-tv movie from the 1950s that introduces the concept of suburban living.

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