Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 [electronic resource] : a round of cheap diversions? / Robert James.

By: James, Robert, 1968-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)Publication details: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Description: xii, 268 pISBN: 9781847793126 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Working class -- Recreation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 790.1/9 LOC classification: HD8390 | .J35 2010Online resources: Click to View
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'.
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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'.

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