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.
Table of Content
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’
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About the author
Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University
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