Picturing Home
Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film
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2021
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3820-0 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3820-0 (ISBN)
This book explores how home was pictured in the 'golden age' of British cinema. Drawing on a wide range of evidence to explore the depiction of domestic life in popular culture, it resituates feature films from the 1940s in relation to narratives of domestic, suburban modernity and the middlebrow established in the interwar years. -- .
Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period re-imagined modes of address that had been used during the interwar years to promote ideas about domestic modernity. Picturing home provides a close analysis of domestic life as constructed in eight films, contextualising them in relation to a broader, offscreen culture surrounding the suburban home, including magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and displays at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so, it offers a new reading of British 1940s films, which demonstrates how they trod a delicate path balancing prewar and postwar, traditional and modern, private and public concerns. -- .
Picturing home examines the depiction of domestic life in British feature films made and released in the 1940s. It explores how pictorial representations of home onscreen in this period re-imagined modes of address that had been used during the interwar years to promote ideas about domestic modernity. Picturing home provides a close analysis of domestic life as constructed in eight films, contextualising them in relation to a broader, offscreen culture surrounding the suburban home, including magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and displays at the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so, it offers a new reading of British 1940s films, which demonstrates how they trod a delicate path balancing prewar and postwar, traditional and modern, private and public concerns. -- .
Hollie Price is a Research Fellow in Media and Film at the University of Sussex -- .
Introduction: ‘’Mid pleasures and palaces’
1 ‘Tea Table Politics’: mapping the industrial working-class home
2 Pastoral images: capturing ‘A Landscape from Within’
3 Dream palaces: transforming the domestic Interior
4 Interior lives: imagining private visions of home
Conclusion: ‘The best of both worlds’
Bibliography
Index -- .
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | Studies in Popular Culture |
Zusatzinfo | 45 B&W |
Verlagsort | Manchester |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 540 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5261-3820-4 / 1526138204 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-3820-0 / 9781526138200 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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