Picturing home
Picturing home

Author: Hollie Price

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2021-02-09

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1526138220

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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.

Building in China
Building in China

Author: Jeffrey W. Cody

Publisher: Chinese University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9789622018716

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Murphy's buildings were compromises - "new wine in old bottles" as he once called them - and the book uses those "bottles" as lenses through which to understand not only Murphy's quest to find a middle ground for his architecture in China, but also to gaze at a tumultuous society facing an uncertain future. Murphy's buildings were more than vessels for either aesthetic visions or technical expertise; inadvertently they became political emblems, as Chinese rulers such as Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yat-sen's son called on Murphy for city planning advice to complement their hopes for urban reconstruction."--Jacket.

Dwight's Journaf of Music
Dwight's Journaf of Music

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-07-13

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 3368171771

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors
Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors

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Publisher:

Published: 1887

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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Includes parodies of Tennyson, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Thomas Hood, Swinburne, Browning, Shakespeare, Milton, Poe, Shelley, Cowper, Coleridge, Herrick, Carroll, Lever, Lover, Burns, Scott, Goldsmith, Kingsley, Byron and many others.