Picturing Home - (Studies in Popular Culture) by Hollie Price (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Picturing home</i> 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. <i>Picturing home </i>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 <i>Daily Mail</i> Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so, it offers a new reading of British 1940s<b> </b>films, which demonstrates how they trod a delicate path balancing prewar and postwar, traditional and modern, private and public concerns.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Picturing home: Domestic life, modernity and the middlebrow in 1940s British film</i> explores the depiction of domestic life - the everyday spaces of kitchen-living rooms, hallways and bedrooms - in British feature films made and released during the Second World War and in the immediate postwar years. It offers a new critical analysis of a range of films through an interdisciplinary exploration of domesticity, modernity and the middlebrow. This book examines the visual styles of picturing home in British films at a time when images of domestic life offered some hope for a safe return from war. It suggests that pictorial depictions of home onscreen in the 1940s engaged with modes of address that had been used to promote ideas about domestic modernity linked with suburbia in the interwar years. It contextualises filmic constructions of domestic life in relation to a broader, offscreen culture surrounding the suburban home, exploring a wide range of evidence including magazines, advertisements, furniture catalogues and ephemera from the <i>Daily Mail</i> Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so, it provides a new reading of 1940s British films as conveying a nuanced vision of modernity for contemporary audiences, characterised by a middlebrow sense of balance and negotiating between prewar and postwar, traditional and modern, private and public. The book's primary readership will be academics and students working in film studies, particularly those focusing on British cinema. Its secondary readership will be academics working in other areas of film and popular culture, including cinematic space, the home and suburbia and middlebrow culture.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'The book provides an unusual, convincing account of English suburban life placed in the culture of the 1930s and 40s with some depth and complexity, challenging popular, hostile stereotypes. [...] provides real, convincing insights into experiences and perceptions of English suburban living during its period of greatest expansion.' <i>Cercles</i>, Pat Thane, Birkbeck College London <i><b> '</b></i>Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Price (Univ. of Sussex, UK) presents an engaging analysis of the intertextual relationship between the idealized images of home portrayed in 1940s British film and those depicted in magazines and displayed in Ideal Home Exhibitions of the day. She explores how these images worked to promote an idea of modernity while still holding to the notion of domestic tradition and stability. In addition, she studies the facade of the perfect lifestyle and home found in these films and the push to replicate the images on screen through magazine articles and annual home showcases, which artfully and artificially linked consumerism to middle-class/suburban happiness. Price is skillful in demonstrating how these films illustrated a longing for the pastoral, idealized Britain of old over the industrial, urban one, which recalled the war and destruction that the country wanted to move past. In this well-written and well-organized book, Price provides readers with an in-depth look at how 1940s British film navigated the call for a return to a traditional domestic normalcy while at the same time promoting the push for modernity and consumerism through an idealized image of home. <i>--A. F. Winstead, Our Lady of the Lake University</i> Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty. Reprinted with permission from <i>Choice Reviews</i>. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Hollie Price is a Research Fellow in Media and Film at the University of Sussex
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