Picturing Home - Domestic Life and Modernity in 1940s British Film

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Hollie Price is a Research Fellow in Media and Film at the University of Sussex

Product details

• Authors: Hollie Price
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781526138200
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3820-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Films, cinema, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General