Paper short abstract:

This filmic essay combines literary, photographic, musical and cinematic positions on life in the single-family-homes of US-American suburbs.

Paper long abstract:

Shortly after WW II, on Long Island, New York, the first Levittown was developed - a new type of suburb, totally built with prefabricated slabs from mass production. At that time, the detached house, each one for one family, has been regarded as fulfillment of the American Dream for members of the growing middle class. These homes also were thought as a guarantee for political stability in the face of cold war and lurking communism. But soon, the suburban lifestyle raised a critical debate which also became manifest in literature and photography, as well as movies and popular music. The filmic essay will present the critique of the single family home as the popular twin that accompanied this way of building and living from its very beginning.