Hollie Price 
Picturing home [EPUB ebook] 
Domestic life and modernity in 1940s British film

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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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Index

Om författaren

Jeffrey Richards is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Lancaster University