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.
This book examines the modes of address used to depict domestic life in a range of canonical and popular British films in the 1940s. Drawing on a wide range of evidence magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and ephemera from the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, it contextualises onscreen images of home in this period as engaging with the popular promotion of suburbia and domestic modernity in the interwar years. Picturing Home therefore provides a new reading of the ways in which British 1940s films visually convey a middlebrow vision of modernity, looking back to the interwar past as a means of imagining the postwar future: characterised by a balance between tradition and progress, domesticity and nationhood, aspirational glamour and restraint, privacy and community. -- .
This book examines the modes of address used to depict domestic life in a range of canonical and popular British films in the 1940s. Drawing on a wide range of evidence magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and ephemera from the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, it contextualises onscreen images of home in this period as engaging with the popular promotion of suburbia and domestic modernity in the interwar years. Picturing Home therefore provides a new reading of the ways in which British 1940s films visually convey a middlebrow vision of modernity, looking back to the interwar past as a means of imagining the postwar future: characterised by a balance between tradition and progress, domesticity and nationhood, aspirational glamour and restraint, privacy and community. -- .
Playwright Sharr White transforms photographer Larry Sultan's landmark photo memoir for the stage in this new three-character play. In the 1980s, Sultan spent a decade photographing and interviewing...
Home Pictures of English Poets: For Fireside and Schoolroom is a book written by Kate A. Sanborn and published in 1869. The book is a collection of biographical sketches and portraits of some of the...
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