Teen Noir: The Suburb as Lived Space
Teen Noir: The Suburb as Lived Space
The fifth chapter looks at the ways in which three teen suburban noirs – Brick (Johnson, 2004), Alpha Dog (Cassavetes, 2006) and Chumscrubber (Posin, 2005) – engage with the suburban environment. The chapter pays attention to the ways which the teenagers – and their parents – (are able to) navigate space: where do they go, how do they move, how can they interact in space? Drawing on the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau as well as close textual analysis of dialogue and composition, it argues that these films, each in their own way, present the suburb not as a static, depthless non-place, but on the contrary as a space that can be experienced, extended and appropriated – in short, as a lived space.
Keywords: Teen noir, Film noir, Brick, Alpha Dog, Chumscrubber, Spatial mobility, Lived space, Home, Marc Auge, Michel de Certeau
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