Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures

by John Sedgwick

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 serve as standard points of reference...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859896609
• ISBN13: 9780859896603
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Exeter Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.5"