Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930-39

Robert James

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This is a landmark study which examines the film and reading tastes of working-class consumers in 1930s Britain. Drawing on a wealth of original resea... Lees meer

Cricket and Broadcasting

Jack Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Cricket and broadcasting discusses the roles of radio and television within English cricket since the beginnings of broadcasting. It explains how and ... Lees meer

Accidental Ambassador Gordo

Robert C Harvey, Gus Arriola

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• The comic strip Gordo was published in U.S. newspapers for forty-four years (1941-1985). For almost all of this run its creator Gus Arriola was the mo... Lees meer

Cinemas and Cinemagoing in Wartime Britain, 1939-45

Richard Farmer

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• During the Second World War, the popularity and importance of the cinema in Britain was at its peak. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Farmer provi... Lees meer

Dancing in the English Style

Allison Abra

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First W... Lees meer

Women's Leisure in England 1920-60

Claire Langhamer

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This insightful book offers a timely assessment of the complex relationship between women and leisure in England, drawing upon recent feminist theory.... Lees meer

Garrison Keillor

Judith Yaross Lee

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Garrison Keillor: A Voice of America explores the comic imagination that put Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, on the map along with Hannibal, Missouri, and Yo... Lees meer

Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural confl... Lees meer

Railways and Culture in Britain

Ian Carter

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• The nineteenth-century's steam railway epitomised modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. In Railways and culture in Britain Ian Carter delves int... Lees meer

From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen

Stuart Hanson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Detailed and comprehensive, this book is the first survey of cinema exhibition in Britain from its inception until the present. Charting the developme... Lees meer

Fashioning Italian Youth

Cecilia Brioni

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Fashioning Italian youth examines popular media representations of Italian young people's style trends and bodily practices from 1958-75. By looking a... Lees meer

Hard Sell

Sean Nixon

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• 'This is an impressive piece of sustained research that brings much to the field. It offers real depth in rethinking the post-war boom and there can b... Lees meer

Whose Improv Is It Anyway?

Amy E Seham

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! A... Lees meer

BBC and national identity in Britain, 1922-53

Thomas Hajkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the BB... Lees meer

Darts in England, 1900-39

Patrick Chaplin

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Drawing in an eclectic range of primary and secondary sources, Chaplin reveals how darts was transformed during the interwar years to become one of th... Lees meer

Super Heroes

Richard Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• The superhero has been the staple of the modern comic book since the late 1930s. The phenomenally successful movies Superman and Batman have made thes... Lees meer

Holiday camps in twentieth-century Britain

Sandra Trudgen Dawson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This book tells the fascinating story of the Butlin and Warner holiday camp chains that emerged in the 1930s. The camps became a cultural phenomenon d... Lees meer

Looking North

David Russell

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinati... Lees meer

Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000

Matthew Hilton

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Provides the historical backdrop to the ... Lees meer

The Lasting of the Mohicans

Martin Barker, Roger Sabin

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• There are few people for whom the phrase "last of the Mohicans" does not conjure up memories and associations--childhood games, films, TV programs. Ye... Lees meer

Dancing in the English Style

Allison Abra

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First W... Lees meer

Women Drinking Out in Britain Since the Early Twentieth Century

David Gutzke

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• Given recent media coverage of women's drinking habits, it is surprising that a topic of such interest has not produced a comprehensive examination. T... Lees meer

The Comics

Coulton Waugh

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• This trailblazing survey of an art form preferred by the masses was the pioneer study of the subject. It shows the evolution and subgenres of the comi... Lees meer

Dangerous Amusements

Laura Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Popular Culture
• In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on t... Lees meer