Podkalicka / Milne / Kennedy Grand Designs

Consumer Markets and Home-Making
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-137-57898-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 183 Seiten

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 their everyday lives. The emphasis on everyday uses and meanings combines creatively with understanding the program theoretically, textually and in terms of its production structures. This position challenges framings of the popular lifestyle and factual television genre that has been dominated by a neoliberal or governmentality perspective for many years. 
Presented by British designer and writer, Kevin McCloud, Grand Designs follows the progress of home owners as they embark on design, renovation and building projects at almost always dizzying scales of endeavour. Understanding the program as both a text to analyse and a site of material impact, the book draws on interviews with production members, home renovators, building practitioners and audiences, as well as references to associated media formats to provide contextual depth to the analysis. The authors argue that, as a cultural object, the program is both shaped by and enacts social discourses of home-making, design value and taste. Navigating public, commercial and promotional logics, Grand Designs sparks new forms of cultural production and consumer markets. 


Aneta Podkalicka is a researcher and lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, Australia. Esther Milne is Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Swinburne University, Australia.Jenny Kennedy is a postdoctoral research fellow in Media and Communications at RMIT University, Australia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Podkalicka, Aneta

Milne, Esther

Kennedy, Jenny

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword: ‘Generations of Plimsolls and Adolescent Knees’: The Gleam of Self-building;5
2;Acknowledgements;9
3;Contents;10
4;List of Figures;11
5;Chapter 1 Introduction;12
5.1;Critical Fields;15
5.2;Reality TV;15
5.3;Lifestyle Media and Property TV;18
5.4;Consumption and Ethics;22
5.5;Moral Entrepreneurship;26
5.6;Grand Designs as Critical Object of Study;30
5.7;The Approach and Aims of the Book;32
5.8;Book Outline;35
5.9;References;36
6;Chapter 2 Production: Visual Style, Narrative Structure and the Viewer Renovator;42
6.1;Early Days;42
6.2;Format, Style and Genre;45
6.3;The Viewer Renovator;47
6.4;Episode Composition and Narrative Structure;48
6.5;The Dramatic Arc;49
6.6;Aesthetics and the Filming Process;53
6.7;Recruitment;58
6.8;References;59
7;Chapter 3 Home: Ideas of Home and the Work of Home-Making;62
7.1;Home-Making Through Taste-Making;64
7.2;What Is a Home?;68
7.3;Connections to Place;70
7.4;Human Stories;73
7.5;Vehicles for a ‘Better Life’;75
7.6;Moving on;77
7.7;References;79
8;Chapter 4 Consumption: The Ethical and the Extravagant;81
8.1;Grand Follies and Finances;85
8.2;Crisis at Home;86
8.3;Thrift;87
8.4;The Romance of Restoration;88
8.5;Recycling and Reducing Waste;90
8.6;Champions of Ethical Consumption;92
8.7;References;94
9;Chapter 5 Innovation: From Represented Novelty to Transformation in Practice;96
9.1;Creativity and Experimentation;97
9.2;Technological Innovation;99
9.3;Innovation by Constraint;101
9.4;Collective Learning;103
9.5;Green Innovation;106
9.6;From Market to Social Innovation;107
9.7;The Uses of Television;110
9.8;References;113
10;Chapter 6 Markets: Creating Value in Media Industries and Consumption Cultures;115
10.1;Audiences, Publics and Second Screen;116
10.2;International Audiences and Franchise Arrangements;119
10.3;Digital Media Access;121
10.4;Social Media Presence;123
10.5;Brand Identity;124
10.6;The Uses of Grand Designs: The Australian Context;126
10.7;Original UK Version Versus Australian Franchise;127
10.8;The Ambiguous Market for Low-Carbon Housing;129
10.9;Media Innovation;133
10.10;References;137
11;Chapter 7 Conclusions;141
11.1;References;149
12;Videography;151
13;Grand Designs Episode List;154
14;Index;173