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Abstract In American memory, life in the suburbs remains a context of prosperity, crucial to that imaginary known as the American Dream. However, it is an idyllic setting that television series have been questioning, even since the very flowering of this way of living. This article proposes a study of fictions from the middle of the last century that have been applied to a dysfunctional reading of the American Dream: that is, narratives that managed to illustrate the opposite sides of homogenization and standardization, revealing the order of the everyday as a precarious simulacrum. These are, however, ideological motives that the most contemporary productions seem to reread as a "nostalgia": a category that Fredric Jameson's theory develops in order to challenge artistic forms where the ideas of the past are elaborated allegorically, as images residuals on which the present imposes another line of significance. The proposal will argue that the keys to this nostalgia must be traced to the postwar suburbanization process, an enclave that cannot be thought outside of an incipient late capitalism whose serial reproduction planned both an urban project and the conformation of subjectivities. In dialogue with Jameson's contributions, the article aims to show how mass television has functioned not only as a mode of aesthetic production, but also as a social institution with critical force. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Author Biography Ariel Gómez Ponce, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba Ariel Gómez Ponce es Doctor en Semiótica y Profesor en Español como Lengua Materna y Lengua Extranjera por la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), y posee un Posdoctorado en Ciencias Sociales, por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Actualmente, es Coordinador Académico de la Maestría en Relaciones Intrnacionales, Profesor Asistente en las asignaturas Sociología Sistemática y Procesos Políticos Internacionales (Lic. En Ciencias Políticas, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, UNC) y es Becario Posdoctoral CONICET. En reuniones científicas, como también en artículos y en cursos de grado y posgrado, se aboca al análisis de series televisivas desde la perspectiva de la semiótica de la cultura (Lotman, Bakhtin) y los estudios culturales (Jameson), problematizando el modo en que estas, en el contexto del capitalismo tardío, ponen en cuestión las identidades y los modos culturales del sentir.

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