A culture for democracy : mass communication and the cultivated mind in Britain between the wars
An analysis of the relationship between commercial and elite culture in Britain in the early 20th century, covering the press, the cinema, the radio, the gramophone and the emergence of a common culture between the wars.
Print Book, English, 1988
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford [England], New York, 1988
History
x, 396 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780198201373, 0198201370
17200141
Illustrations. Introduction. Part 1 The rise of modern commercial culture, 1890-1930: Producers and consumers; technology and tradition. Part 2 The response of the cultivated elites: The reassertion of cultural hierarchy; regaining authority - approaches to cultural reform; technology and the quest for aesthetic tradition. Part 3 The 1930s - towards a common culture: Sight and sound - studies in convergence; literature - the strategies and paradoxes of cultural dissent. Works cited. Index.