Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions?
Online ISBN:
9781781702444
Print ISBN:
9780719080258
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Book
Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions?
Published:
7 September 2010
Online ISBN:
9781781702444
Print ISBN:
9780719080258
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Cite
James, Robert, Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions? (Manchester , 2010; online edn, Manchester Scholarship Online, 19 July 2012), https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719080258.001.0001, accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
This book examines the relationship between class and culture in 1930s Britain. Focusing on the reading and cinema-going tastes of the working classes, it combines historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual and written sources to appraise the role of popular leisure in this decade. Drawing on original research, the book adds to our knowledge of working-class leisure pursuits in this contentious period.
Contents
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Front Matter
- Introduction
- 1 ‘The people's amusement’: the growth in cinema-going and reading habits
- 2 ‘Fouling civilisation’?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature
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3
Trade attitudes towards audience taste
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4
‘What made you put that rubbish on?’: national trends in film popularity
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5
‘The appearance is an added incentive’: national trends in literature popularity
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6
‘A very profitable enterprise’: South Wales Miners’ Institutes
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7
‘Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress’: working-class tastes in Derby
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8
‘The home of the brave’?: working-class tastes in Portsmouth
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9
Popular film and literature: textual analyses
- Conclusion: ‘giving the public what it wants’
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End Matter
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