Grand Designs Consumer Markets and Home-Making /

• Main Authors: Podkalicka, Aneta (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Milne, Esther (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kennedy, Jenny (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion pictures and television.; Motivation research (Marketing).; Communication.; Screen Studies.; Consumer Behavior.; Media and Communication.

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...

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.