Popular Culture / Past and Present - Rouledge, 1993 - 326

This book covers popular culture in Britain since the early nineteenth century. Acknowledgements, Preface, Introduction, Popular Recreations under Attack, Class Consciousness: The Radical Culture, Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England, Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition, Residential Amenity and Respectable Morality and the Rise of the Entertainment Industry: The Case of Blackpool 1860-1914, The Great British Picture Show: Boomtime and Slump Time, Serving the Nation: Public Service Broadcasting before the War, Towards a Cartography of Taste 1935-1962, Football Since the War, The Narrative Structure in Fleming, Jackie: An Ideology of Adolescent Femininity, The Motor-bike and Motor-bike Culture, Confections and Concoctions and Conceptions, The Cold War in Science Fiction 1940-1960, Index.

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