TY - JOUR
T1 - Property TV: The (Re) Making of Home on National Screens
AU - McElroy, Ruth
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens, by reference to new domestic lifestyle genres. Through a comparative analysis of the property tv of English-language broadcasters in the UK and USA, as well as through the minority-language Welsh broadcaster, S4C, this article examines the inter-relationship of domestic scenes of private homes with the formation of national constructions of homelands and national belonging. The aestheticization of everyday home life is tied both to distinct material cultural practices and to the politics of taste in the formation of cultural identities within distinct national locales.
AB - This article explores how home is made and re-made on national television screens, by reference to new domestic lifestyle genres. Through a comparative analysis of the property tv of English-language broadcasters in the UK and USA, as well as through the minority-language Welsh broadcaster, S4C, this article examines the inter-relationship of domestic scenes of private homes with the formation of national constructions of homelands and national belonging. The aestheticization of everyday home life is tied both to distinct material cultural practices and to the politics of taste in the formation of cultural identities within distinct national locales.
KW - lifestyle television; national screens
KW - material culture; do-it-yourself
KW - identity, do-it-yourself, home; taste
U2 - 10.1177/1367549407084963
DO - 10.1177/1367549407084963
M3 - Article
VL - 11
SP - 43
EP - 61
JO - European Journal of Cultural Studies
JF - European Journal of Cultural Studies
SN - 1367-5494
IS - 1
ER -