1940s
A01=Hollie Price
Author_Hollie Price
British
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Category=NHTB
Domestic
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Film
Home
Interwar
Middlebrow
Modernity
Pictorial
Suburbia
Product details
- ISBN 9781526138200
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Hollie Price is a Research Fellow in Media and Film at the University of Sussex
