1. Introduction.- 2. 'Society Stinks': Suburban Alienation and Violence in the Early Films of Penelope Spheeris - John Taylor, University of Pittsburgh. 3. Dis-locations: Mapping the Banlieue - Julia Dobson, University of Sheffield.- 4. Mike Leigh and the Poetics of English Suburbia - David Forrest, University of Sheffield.- 5. Estate of the Nation: Social Housing as Cultural Verisimilitude "" ros, ="" groningen.-="" 9. system="" within="" suburb: ="" dharavi="" class="" depiction="" bollywood - sony="" jalarajan="" raj, ="" macewan="" university and="" rohini="" sreekumar, ="" monash="" university.-="" 10. Outskirts of Reason: the Dream in Días de papel and Chircales - Albert Elduque, University of Reading.- 11. Margins versus Centre: Cinematic Tensions and Conflict between the Suburbs and Paris Janina Schupp, University of Cambridge.- 12. The Suburban Australian Gothic in Lake Mungo and Beautiful - Jonathan Rayner, University of Sheffield.- 13: Claiming the Suburbs: Children and the Children's Film Foundation in Post-war British Cinema - Matthew Kerry, Nottingham Trent University.- 14. Sides of The Moon: Detroit and Cinema of Proximity - Graeme Harper, Oakland University.- 15: Sirk and Suburbia: Queering the Straightest Space Imaginable - Cody Lang, York University.- 16. 'I looked for you in my closet tonight': staging the violence of the Real through 'candy-colored' suburban dreamscapes - Rachel Joseph, Trinity University.