Picturing home

<i>Picturing home</i> 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. <i>Picturing home </i>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 <i>Daily Mail</i> Ideal Home Exhibition. In doing so it offers a new reading of British 1940s<b> </b>films which demonstrates how they trod a delicate path balancing prewar and postwar traditional and modern private and public concerns.