Popular Culture | Past and Present | Tony Bennett, Graham Martin, Bern

Book

Popular Culture

ABSTRACT

This book surveys popular culture in Britain from the early nineteenth-century to the present.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |176 pages

Part One

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|27 pages

Popular Recreations Under Attack

chapter 2|19 pages

Class Consciousness: The Radical Culture

chapter 3|26 pages

Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England

chapter 4|30 pages

Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870–1900: Notes on the Remaking of A Working Class

chapter 5|11 pages

Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition

chapter 6|13 pages

Residential Amenity, Respectable Morality and the Rise of the Entertainment Industry: The Case of Blackpool, 1860–1914

chapter 7|15 pages

The Great British Picture Show: Boomtime and Slumptime

chapter 8|28 pages

Serving the Nation: Public Service Broadcasting Before the War

part |134 pages

Part Two

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 9|25 pages

Towards a Cartography of Taste 1935–1962

chapter 10|23 pages

Football Since the War

chapter 11|21 pages

The Narrative Structure in Fleming

chapter 12|21 pages

Jackie: An Ideology of Adolescent Femininity

chapter 13|10 pages

The Motor-Bike and Motor-Bike Culture

chapter 14|14 pages

Confections, Concoctions and Conceptions

chapter 15|15 pages

The Cold War in Science Fiction, 1940–1960