Robert James

Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39

A round of cheap diversions?

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Robert James argues that working-class consumers used popular film and fiction to answer a range of cultural and social needs in this tumultuous decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780719080258
• ISBN-10: 0719080258
• Artikelnr.: 29919701

Autorenporträt

Robert James is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social History at the University of Portsmouth

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgements Contents Introduction 1. 'The people's
amusement': The growth in cinema-going and reading habits 2. 'Fouling
civilisation'? official attitudes towards popular film and literature 3.
Trade attitudes towards audience taste 4. Working-class tastes: national
trends in film popularity 5. Working-class tastes: national trends in
literature popularity 6. Working-class tastes: South Wales Miners'
Institutes 7. Working-class tastes: Derby 8. Working-class tastes:
Portsmouth 9. Popular film and literature: textual analyses Conclusion:
'Giving the public what it wants' Bibliography Appendices: I Broader
patterns of film popularity II Sidney Bernstein questionnaires, 1932 and
1934: Pre-report material III Patterns of literature popularity Index