Mass-Observation at the Movies

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Edited by Jeffrey Richards and Dorothy Sheridan

Type

Studies

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

sociology, Great Britain

Publishing date

2016

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

1st publishing

2013

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 490 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-138-98055-6

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Book Presentation:
The Mass Observation social research organisation (1937 to early 1950s), a pioneering independent effort aimed at education, specialised in material about everyday life in Britain and recorded material through a panel of around 500 volunteer observers who maintained diaries or replied to open-ended questionnaires known as directives.

The collection of papers on film is one of the largest collections on a single theme produced by Mass-Observation but before this book was originally published in 1987 very little of the film material had been put into print. This anthology presents a selection from the Mass-Observation archive which offers unique insights into cinema-going trends, particularly in the years of the Second World War. This is a great reference work on the role of the cinema in national morale and other social effects during the war years with details of people’s behaviour at the cinema and their opinions of the films and the newsreels they saw at the movies.

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