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.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hollie Price
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781526138200
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3820-0
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Studies in Popular Culture
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Fotografia, cinematografia, video, TV