American Dream - Suburbia on celluloid

A list based on an article I had written in a college magazine 10 years ago (excerpt below). Since then, this theme has evolved into a genre with films such as Revolutionary Road…

American Beauty’ is not the first film that exposes the dysfunctional American suburban community living. The James Dean classic ‘Rebel without a Cause’ says a lot about the suburbs, the narrow role that children and teenagers play in them and a lot about the ’50’s myth of “proper families”’ – the myth about suburbia being an ideal community for raising families. However, the film is not a real...