This week we continued our exploration of the US postwar suburbs (see week 13), reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1953) and watching Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (Siegel 1956). Both texts were framed in relation to the period’s culture of affluence and anxiety. But first we began by placing Bradbury’s novel in relation to genre – specifically the … Continue reading The City in Fiction and Film, week 14