Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in East-Central Europe

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Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in East-Central Europe is written by Geoffrey Pridham and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0719060575 (ISBN 10) and 9780719060571 (ISBN 13).

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.