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 …
Introduction -- Antaeus and Hercules -- The web of meaning -- The cultivation of place -- The landscape of memory -- Habits of home -- A sacred economy -- Gifting and recognition -- The boundaries of home -- Parish and province -- Conclusion: the future of home
"A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, in which the queen of wanderlust reflects on the comforts of home. While Frances Mayes is known for her travels, she has always sought a sense of home w…
"For a Jew, describing a place as hòme' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling àt home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home Jèwish', materially a…
A multifaceted exploration of what makes a home 'Jewish', materially and emotionally, and of what it takes to make Jews feel 'at home' in their environment.
"For a Jew, describing a place as hòme' conveys connotations of heritage as well as of residence. Additionally, feeling àt home' suggests a sense of comfort in one's social surroundings. The questions at the heart of this volume are: what things make a home Jèwish', materially a…
Provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today's global societies.
"This book traces the effects of the feminist and civil rights movements in the construction of Hollywood action heroes. The American heroic quest of the past 25 years increasingly has involved a reclamation of home, creating a place for the Hero at the hearth, part of a more in…
"Cinema in Central Asia is the first comprehensive and up-to-date account of the cinema of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan from its origins to the present day. Bringing together specialists from Central Asia, Russia, Europe and the United States, …
