Chambers Deborah - Cultural Ideals Of Home The Social Dynamics Of Domestic Space - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Spanning the nineteenth to twenty - first centuries this book investigates how home is imagined staged and experienced in western culture. Questions about meanings of home and domestic culture are triggered by dramatic changes in values and ideals about the dwellings we live in and the dwellings we desire or dread. Deborah Chambers explores how home is idealised as a middle - class haven managed as an investment and signified as a status symbol and expression of personal identity. She addresses a range of public state commercial popular and expert discourses about home : the heritage industry design exhibitions television social media home mobilities and migration smart technologies and ecological sustainability. Drawing on cross - disciplinary research including cultural history and cultural geography the book offers a distinctive media and cultural studies approach supported by original historically informed case studies on interior and domestic design; exhibitions of model homes; TV home interiors; media home imaginaries; multiscreen homes; corporate visions of homes of tomorrow and digital smart homes. A comprehensive and engaging study this book is ideal for students and researchers of cultural studies cultural history media and communication studies as well as sociology gender studies cultural geography and design studies.
Title: Cultural Ideals Of Home The Social Dynamics Of Domestic Space
Author(s): Chambers Deborah
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138637931
Pages: 244 Pages
Publication Date: 4/9/2020
Series: Directions in Cultural History
Category: Media Studies