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Avitts, Ellen.

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Live the dream: The rhetoric of the furnished model home at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Live the dream: The rhetoric of the furnished model home at the turn of the twenty-first century./
Author:	Avitts, Ellen.
Description:	359 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 1951.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-06A.
Subject:	American Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3220640
ISBN:	9780542718410

Live the dream: The rhetoric of the furnished model home at the turn of the twenty-first century.
Avitts, Ellen.

Live the dream: The rhetoric of the furnished model home at the turn of the twenty-first century. - 359 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 1951.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006.

The professionally furnished model home is a primary marketing tool of the contemporary housing industry in America. These on-site, walk-through displays offer narratives of potential lifestyle and as such, stand as key promoters of idealized middle-class values. This study is a consideration of the rhetoric of furnished model homes and how these spaces assist in establishing culturally perceived norms while denying social, cultural, and economic realities. It explores how model homes are used as symbols that market social identity and the ways in which artifacts shape, and are shaped by, communally driven perceptions of middle-class values. This dissertation explores the methods and meanings of the constructed narratives of the model home at the turn of the twenty-first century to articulate how specific values are communicated and received in presentations of domestic space and the process by which the symbolic nature of material goods is enlisted to market a particular style of family life and social interaction. The paper pursues two goals: first, an increased understanding of the methods utilized by the building industry to market idealized values, and second, an interpretation of the model home within this context.

ISBN: 9780542718410Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017604
American Studies.

Live the dream: The rhetoric of the furnished model home at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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