Spanning the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, this book investigates how home is imagined, staged and experienced in western culture.Questions about meanings of ‘home’ and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle-class haven, managed as an investment, and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public, state, commercial, popular and expert discourses about ‘home’: the heritage industry, design, exhibitions, television, social media, home mobilities and migration, smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross-disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography, the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original, historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; ‘media home’ imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of ‘homes of tomorrow’ and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study, this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies, cultural history, media and communication studies, as well as sociology, gender studies, cultural geography and design studies.
Deborah Chambers
Cultural Ideals of Home [EPUB ebook]
The Social Dynamics of Domestic Space
Cultural Ideals of Home [EPUB ebook]
The Social Dynamics of Domestic Space
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 252 ● ISBN 9781351793643 ● Editura Taylor and Francis ● Publicat 2020 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 7408933 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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