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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Ebook version : |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sam Manning, (Historian) |
ISBN: | 9781912702343 1912702347 9781912702350 1912702355 |
OCLC Number: | 1152018976 |
Description: | xi, 235 pages : illustrations, maps, charts ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Cinema-going experiences -- 2. The decline of cinema-going -- 3. Cinema-going and the built environment -- 4. Cinema exhibition, programming and audience preferences in Belfast -- 5. Film exhibition in post-war Sheffield. |
Series Title: | New historical perspectives |
Responsibility: | Sam Manning. |
Abstract:
Cinema-going was the most popular commercial leisure activity in the first half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1946 with 1.6 billion recorded admissions. Though 'going to the pictures' remained a popular pastime, the transition to peacetime altered citizens' leisure habits. During the 1950s increased affluence, the growth of television ownership and the diversification of leisure led to rapid declines in attendance. Cinema attendances fell in all regions, but the speed, nature and extent of decline varied widely across the United Kingdom.
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