Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: James, Robert, 1968-
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010.
Series:Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
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Table of Contents:
  • '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'.