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Bloggers of Suburbia: September 2005
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005. Why Tom and Barbara Good are (and are not) like Karl Marx. In the first class tonight we watched an episode and a half of. And it was the Goods' smug individualism and their desire to retreat from any kind of community that struck me most on rewatching these programs. I'm hesitant to criticize, let alone politicize The Good Life. I wondered in the car on the way home whether Tom and Barbara illustrate the fundamental problem with "alternative culture" described (by two Cana...
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Bloggers of Suburbia: October 2005
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Thursday, October 20, 2005. We talked tonight about the rather odd families in "Keeping Up Appearances," where certain adult characters (such as Rose) function as children and others (like Hyacinth) as parents, while actual children are absent. This struck me as being like The Cement Garden. If there the children adopt adult roles, here adults become childlike. Another link between these two "texts" is the tension between the human and the non-human. In The Cement Garden. Posted by smbrook at 2:42 AM.
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Bloggers of Suburbia: August 2005
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Thursday, August 25, 2005. Welcome to the blog for English 382 at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. This course dedicated to the analysis of representations of suburbia in twentieth-century British literature, film and television. Posted by smbrook at 5:57 PM. View my complete profile. And finally . . . Junk Food: Kitsch and Abigails Party. Coming Up for Air. Why Tom and Barbara Good are (and are not) like Ka.