'The people's amusement': the growth in cinema-going and reading habits
'Fouling civilisation?: official attitudes towards popular film and literature
Trade attitudes towards audience taste
'What made you put that rubbish on?': national trends in film popularity
'The appearance as an added incentive': national trends in literature popularity
'A very profitable enterprise': South Wales Miners' Institutes
'Gunmen, rustlers and a damsel in distress': working-class tastes in Derby
'The home of the brave"? working -class tastes in Portsmouth
Popular film and literature: textual analyses
Conclusion: 'giving the public what it wants'.