Popular Culture: Past and Present

Part 1; Introduction 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Popular Recreations Under Attack, Robert Malcolmson; Chapter 2 Class Consciousness: The Radical Culture, Edward Thompson; Chapter 3 Class and Leisure in Mid-Victorian England, Hugh Cunningham; Chapter 4 Working-Class Culture and Working-Class Politics in London, 1870–1900: Notes on the Remaking of A Working Class, Gareth Stedman Jones; Chapter 5 Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition, Darko Suvin; Chapter 6 Residential Amenity, Respectable Morality and the Rise of the Entertainment Industry: The Case of Blackpool, 1860–1914, John Walton; Chapter 7 The Great British Picture Show: Boomtime and Slumptime, George Perry; Chapter 8 Serving the Nation: Public Service Broadcasting Before the War, Paddy Scannell, David Cardiff; Part 2; Introduction 2 Introduction; Chapter 9 Towards a Cartography of Taste 1935–1962, Dick Hebdige; Chapter 10 Football Since the War, Chas Critcher; Chapter 11 The Narrative Structure in Fleming, Umberto Eco; Chapter 12 Jackie : An Ideology of Adolescent Femininity, Angela McRobbie; Chapter 13 The Motor-Bike and Motor-Bike Culture, Paul Willis; Chapter 14 Confections, Concoctions and Conceptions, Allison James; Chapter 15 The Cold War in Science Fiction, 1940–1960, T. Shippey;

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