Popular Culture and Workingclass Taste in Britain, 193039 - A Round of Cheap Diversions?

Informationen zum Autor Robert James is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Social History at the University of Portsmouth Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis DedicationAcknowledgementsContentsIntroduction1. 'The people's amusement': The growth in cinema-going and reading habits 2. 'Fouling civilisation'? official attitudes towards popular film and literature3. Trade attitudes towards audience taste4. Working-class tastes: national trends in film popularity5. Working-class tastes: national trends in literature popularity 6. Working-class tastes: South Wales Miners' Institutes7. Working-class tastes: Derby8. Working-class tastes: Portsmouth9. Popular film and literature: textual analysesConclusion: 'Giving the public what it wants'BibliographyAppendices:I Broader patterns of film popularityII Sidney Bernstein questionnaires, 1932 and 1934: Pre-report materialIII Patterns of literature popularity Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert James
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9780719080258
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8025-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Ha; Studies in Popular Culture; Studies in Popular Culture (Ha
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Historiography, Historiography