Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 a round of cheap diversions? /
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Manchester, U.K. ; New York :
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
c2010.
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| Series: | Studies in popular culture
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10623391 |
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'.