Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39
Subtitle: a round of cheap diversions?
By: Robert James
Series: Studies in popular culture; Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780719080258
Subjects: Recreation; Civilization; Working class; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [250]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits; title: 'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature; title: Trade attitudes towards audience taste; title: 'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity; title: 'The appearance as an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity; title: 'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes; title: 'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby; title: 'The home of the brave"? working -class tastes in Portsmouth; title: Popular film and literature: textual analyses; title: Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants'.