Beschreibung:
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.
Constitutes the first academic book on the long-running hit series Grand Designs
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.