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 i…
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 i…
Introduction : themes and issues -- Heritage homes -- Idealising homes and homemaking -- Domestic modernity in suburbia -- Early media homes -- Property dramas and home makeovers -- Multiscreen home time -- Alternative domesticities -- Home mobilities and migration -- Smart home…
"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 …
"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 …
Changing media, homes and households- Front Cover -- Changing media, homes and households -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Media households -- Types of media engagement in the home -- The mediatisation of the home -- M…
Media technologies have played a central role in shaping ideas about home life over the last two centuries. This book explores the complex relationship between home, householders, families and media technologies by charting the evolution of the media-rich home, from the early 20…