Amerykańskie przedmieścia w cieniu wielkiego miasta
American Suburbs in the Long Shadow of the Big City

Summary/Abstract: Suburbs are “a Russia, only with money” – the joke quoted by William H. Whyte in The Organization Man points to the ambivalent status of suburban districts, noticeable also in their cultural representations. On the one hand, suburbia are simply a way of spatial planning, on the other – this particular space has always been as tangible as symbolic and mythical. They serve as a microcosm and metonymy of ideas crucial for post-war America, such as nation, capitalism, security, pax Americana. The article focuses on the mechanisms and reasons (considered both synchronically and diachronically) for the very existence of the movie-made American suburbia seen as symbolic territories.

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