Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39
James, Robert, 1968-
Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? / [electronic resource] : Robert James. - Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010. - xii, 268 p. - Studies in popular culture . - Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index.
'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits -- 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature -- Trade attitudes towards audience taste -- 'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity -- 'The appearance as an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity -- 'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes -- 'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby -- 'The home of the brave"? working -class tastes in Portsmouth -- Popular film and literature: textual analyses -- Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants'.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Working class--Recreation--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
Electronic books.
HD8390 / .J35 2010eb
790.1/9
Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? / [electronic resource] : Robert James. - Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010. - xii, 268 p. - Studies in popular culture . - Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index.
'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits -- 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature -- Trade attitudes towards audience taste -- 'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity -- 'The appearance as an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity -- 'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes -- 'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby -- 'The home of the brave"? working -class tastes in Portsmouth -- Popular film and literature: textual analyses -- Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants'.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Working class--Recreation--History--Great Britain--20th century.
Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
Electronic books.
HD8390 / .J35 2010eb
790.1/9