'Picture Post', 1938-50
Author: Sir Hopkinson (Tom)
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 288
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Author: Sir Hopkinson (Tom)
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Hopkinson
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Hopkinson
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Jobling
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780719044670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an inventive a well-researched study which explores the production and consumption of graphic design in Europe.
Author: Michael John Law
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-12-14
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1474285023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1938: Modern Britain, Michael John Law demonstrates that our understanding of life in Britain just before the Second World War has been overshadowed by its dramatic political events. 1938 was the last year of normality, and Law shows through a series of case studies that in many ways life in that year was far more modern than might have been thought. By considering topics as diverse as the opening of a new type of pub, the launch of several new magazines, the emergence of push-button radios and large screen televisions sets, and the building of a huge office block, he reveals a Britain, both modern and intrigued by its own modernity, that was stopped in its tracks by war and the austerity that followed. For some, life in Britain was as consumerist, secular, Americanized and modern as it would become for many in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Presenting a fresh perspective on an important year in British social history, illuminated by six engaging case studies, this is a key study for students and scholars of 20th-century Britain.
Author: Adrian Bingham
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-02-26
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0191557501
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamily Newspapers? provides the first detailed historical study of the modern popular press's coverage of sex and private life, from the start of the mass newspaper reading boom in 1918 to the triumph of the Sun's sexualised journalism in 1978. In this period, newspapers were at the heart of British popular culture, and Fleet Street's preoccupation with sex meant that the press was a hugely significant source of knowledge and imagery about sexual behaviour, personal relationships, and moral codes. Focusing on changing ideas of what sexual content was deemed 'fit to print', Adrian Bingham reveals how editors negotiated the tension between exploiting public curiosity about sex and ensuring that their journalism remained within the bounds of acceptability for a 'family newspaper'. The study challenges established interpretations of social change by drawing attention to the ways in which the press opened up the public discussion of sexuality before the 'permissiveness' of the 1960s. Exploring the spectacular diversity of the press's sexual content - from advice columns to pin-ups, from court reports to celebrity revelations - Bingham offers a rich and thought-provoking investigation of a media form that has done much to shape the character of modern Britain.
Author: Teresa Bruś
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-09-17
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 3031368991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an interdisciplinary study of the engagement with and representation of the face across literature, photography, and theatre. It looks at how the face is an active agent, closely connected with the history of the media and the social interactions reflected in media images. Focusing on the dynamic period of the interwar years, it explores a range of case studies in Poland, UK, and the US, and examines artists like Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (Witkacy), Virginia Woolf, Debora Vogel, Sir Cecil Beaton, Theodore Władysław Benda, and Edward Gordon Craig. Teresa Bruś argues that these writers and photographers defended the face against threats from modern life – not least, the media. She focuses on transformations of the face in life writing across a range of media and draws attention to the artists’ autobiographical narratives.
Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2021-09-10
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1478022019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritings on Media gathers more than twenty of Stuart Hall's media analyses, from scholarly essays such as “Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse” (1973) to other writings addressed to wider publics. Hall explores the practices of news photography, the development of media and cultural studies, the changing role of television, and how the nation imagines itself through popular media. He attends to Britain's imperial history and the politics of race and cultural identity as well as the media's relationship to the political project of the state. Testifying to the range and agility of Hall's critical and pedagogic engagement with contemporary media culture—and also to his collaborative mode of working—this volume reaffirms his stature as an innovative media theorist while demonstrating the continuing relevance of his methods of analysis.
Author: Hollie Price
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1526138220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPicturing 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.