Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 [electronic resource] : a round of cheap diversions? / Robert James.
By: James, Robert.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type:
BookSeries: Studies in popular culture (Manchester, England): Publisher: Manchester, U.K. ; New York : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, c2010Description: xii, 268 p.Subject(s): Working class -- Recreation -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 790.1/9 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
E-book
|
IUKL Library | Subscripti | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/kliuc/Doc?id=10623391 | 1 | Available |
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'.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
There are no comments for this item.