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Popular culture and working-class taste in Britain, 1930-39 : a round of cheap diversions? /
This book examines the relationship between class & culture in 1930s Britain. focusing on the reading & cinema-going tastes of the working classes, Robert James' landmark study combines rigorous historical analysis with a close textual reading of visual & written sources to appraise...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in Popular Culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- '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'.