Gary Cross

Worktowners at Blackpool

Mass-Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780415040716
• ISBN-10: 041504071X
• Artikelnr.: 21971685

Autorenporträt

Gary Cross

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1
Chapter 1 WORK
Chapter 2 THE ORDER OF TIME
Chapter 3 THE HOLIDAY DREAM
Part 2
Chapter 4 THE HOLIDAY EXODUS
Chapter 5, THE ESSENTIALS OF HOLIDAY LIFE
Chapter 6 WITCH DOCTOR
Part 3
Chapter 7 AROUND THE TOWER AND OUT TO THE SEA
Chapter 8, THE PEOPLE'S PLAYGROUND
Chapter 9 FOURTH DIMENSION
Chapter 10 PENNIES FROM HEAVEN AND FROM EARTH
Chapter 11 THEATRES AND CINEMA
Chapter 12 THE FRINGE OF OUR LAW
Part 4
Chapter 13 DAY ROUTINE
Chapter 14 CHILDREN
Chapter 15 THE MOB
Chapter 16 DANCING
Chapter 17 SEX
Chapter 18 INTERSEX AND THE MORAL LAW
Part 5
Chapter 19, BLACKPOOL PEOPLE
Chapter 20 LIGHTS IN AUTUMN
Chapter 21 RELICS FROM HOLY BLACKPOOL AFTERWORD: MASS-OBSERVATION'S BLACKPOOL AND SOME ALTERNATIVES, John K. Walton
Index