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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
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Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures Hardcover - 2001 - 1st Edition

by John Sedgwick


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In the 1930s there were close to a billion annual admissions to the cinema in Britain and it was by far the most popular paid-for leisure activity. This book is an exploration of that popularity. John Sedgwick has developed the POPSTAT index, a methodology based on exhibition records which allows identification of the most popular films and the leading stars of the period, and provides a series of tables which will servce as standard points of reference for all scholars and specialists working in the field of 1930s cinema. The book establishes similarities and differences between national and regional tastes through detailed case study analysis of cinemagoing in Bolton and Brighton, and offers an analysis of genre development. It also reveals that although Hollywood continued to dominate the British market, films emanating from British studios proved markedly popular with domestic audiences.

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  • Title Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures
  • Author John Sedgwick
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 328
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Exeter Press, Exeter:
  • Date April 2001
  • ISBN 9780859896603 / 0859896609
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.53 x 6.48 x 1.03 in (24.21 x 16.46 x 2.62 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1930's
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures - Social aspects - Great, Motion picture audiences - Great Britain -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003430251
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.234

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John Sedgwick is Principal Research Fellow at the University of North London.
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