Grand Designs Consumer Markets and Home-Making /

This is the first academic book to examine the long running hit series Grand Designs, which occupies a significant place in the popular imagination internationally. The authors apply an empirically grounded, critical perspective to the study of television to reveal how people use the program in thei...

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Main Author: Podkalicka, Aneta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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ISBN:9781137578983
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Production: visual style, narrative structure, and the viewer renovator
  • 3. Home: Ideas of home, and the work of home-making
  • 4. Consumption: the ethical and the extravagant
  • 5. Innovation: from represented novelty to transformation in practice
  • 6. Markets: creating value in media industries and consumption cultures.