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- Explores the cultural significance of the night in modern mass media texts
- Combines newspaper and film analysis to provide a unique interdisciplinary perspective on popular culture
- Highlights little and well-known cultural texts for a rounded view of British popular culture in the interwar period
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores the representation of London’s nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Through a series of case-studies, it analyses how British popular media in the 1920s and 1930s displayed the capital after dark. It argues that newspapers and films were part of a common culture, which capitalized on the transgressive possibilities of the night. At the same time both media ensured that those in authority, such as the police, were always shown to ultimately be in control of the night.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Coventry University, London, UK
Mara Arts
About the author
Mara Arts has completed a doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research focuses on mass culture in interwar Britain. In particular, she investigates the intersections between fiction film, tabloid journalism and popular culture. Her research has previously been included in London on Film, eds. Pam Hirsch and Chris O'Rourke (Palgrave, 2017). Mara regularly presents her research at a range of national and international conferences. In addition to her research activities, Mara also has several years’ experience as a university lecturer, teaching film and media studies at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She currently works at Coventry University where she supports academic teams with curriculum development. Mara is passionate about increasing the visibility of British interwar history and maintains a weekly blog at www.interwarlondon.com
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interwar London after Dark in British Popular Culture
Authors: Mara Arts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94938-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94937-2Published: 05 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-94940-2Published: 06 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-94938-9Published: 04 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 207
Topics: Popular Culture , British Cinema and TV, Urban History