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.
| ISBN: | 9781526138200 |
| Publication date: | 19th January 2021 |
| Author: | Hollie Price |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Studies in Popular Culture |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Films, cinema History |