Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39 : A Round of Cheap Diversions?.
Robert. James
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (289 pages)
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| Utgave | 1st ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Copyright -- Contents -- General editor's introduction -- Acknowledgements -- 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. 'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity -- 5. 'The appearance is an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity -- 6. 'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes -- 7. 'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby -- 8. 'The home of the brave'?: working-class tastes in Portsmouth -- 9. Popular film and literature: textual analyses -- Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants' -- Appendix I: Broader patterns of film popularity -- Appendix II: Sidney Bernstein questionnaires,1932 and 1934 Pre-report material -- Appendix III: Patterns of literature popularity -- Select bibliography -- Index.. - 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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| ISBN | 9781847793126
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