Archival sources
Belfast Central Library
Belfast cinema collection.
Belfast public libraries, Irish and local studies department, Checklist of Belfast Cinemas (Belfast, 1979).
Cinema Theatre Association Archive, Rochford
Sheffield Cartoon/Classic Cinema day book, April 1961–November 1964.
Gaumont, Sheffield, weekly return forms, 1948–58.
McClay Library, Queen’s University Belfast
Belfast Corporation minutes, 1944–65.
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI), Belfast
FIN/15/6/A/10, reduction in rates of Entertainments Duty, 1954.
FIN/15/6/A/12, reduction in rates of Entertainments Duty, 9 June 1958.
FIN/15/6/A/13, new arrangements for the payment of Entertainments Duty from 29 May 1960.
FIN/15/6/C/1/1–33, Entertainments Duty weekly summaries, Belfast cinemas, 1948–9.
FIN 15/6/C/1/34–74, Entertainments Duty weekly summaries, Belfast cinemas, 1952–3.
FIN 15/6/C/1/75–110, Entertainments Duty weekly summaries, Belfast cinemas, 1956–7.
FIN 15/6/C/1/111–143, Entertainments Duty weekly summaries, Belfast cinemas, 1960–1.
CA990/24a, Sheffield City Council, libraries, archives and information files, Library Theatre licences.
CA990/48, correspondence and papers regarding Library Theatre, 1948– 70.
MD7325/1, Stanley Shirt (1920–89) of Sheffield, personal diaries, 1933–89.
MD7333/2/1–2, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, minute books, 1939–67.
MD7333/3/1, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, account ledger, 1938–86.
MD7333/4/1–2, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, payments ledgers, 1939–75.
MD7333/5/1–2, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, receipts ledgers, 1939–64.
MD7333/7/6–26, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, published accounts sheet, 1945–65.
MD7333/8/1–2, Rex Cinema (Sheffield) Limited, published accounts for shareholders, 1940–64.
Sheffield Local Studies Library
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Newspapers, periodicals and trade journals
ABC News
Belfast News-Letter
Belfast Telegraph Billboard
Darts
The Economist
Financial Times
The Gown
Ideal Kinema
Ireland’s Saturday Night
Irish Builder and Engineer
Irish Examiner
Irish Independent
Irish Press
Irish Times
Irish Times Pictorial
Kinematograph Weekly
Kine Sales and Catering Review
Manchester Guardian
Monthly Film Bulletin
Motion Picture Herald
Northern Whig
Picture House
Picture Post
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Sheffield Independent
Sheffield Telegraph
Sight and Sound
Sunday Independent (Ireland)
The Builder
The Star (Sheffield)
The Times
Parliamentary Papers
Distribution and Exhibition of Cinematograph Films, Report of the Committee of Enquiry Appointed by the President of the Board of Trade ( Parl. Papers 1949 [C. 7837]).
Report of the Departmental Committee on Children and the Cinema ( Parl. Papers 1950 [C. 7945]).
Publications
Abrams, L., Oral History Theory (London, 2010).
Abrams, M., ‘The British cinema audience’, Hollywood Quarterly, iii (1947), 155–8.
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Allen, R. C., ‘The place of space in film historiography’, Tijdschrift voor Mediageschiedenis, ix (2006), 15–27.
Anderson, L., ‘Postcards from the edge: the untidy realities of working with older cinema audiences, distant memories and newsreels’, Participations, vi (2009), 180–98.
Atwell, D., Cathedrals of the Movies: a History of British Cinemas and their Audiences (London, 1980).
Ayres, J. D., ‘The two screens: FIDO, RFDA and film vs. television in post-Second World War Britain’, Journal of British Cinema and Television, xiv (2017), 504–21.
Barritt, D. and C. Carter, The Northern Ireland Problem (London, 1962).
Barton, B., Northern Ireland in the Second World War (Belfast, 1995).
Barton, R., Irish National Cinema (London, 2004).
BBC Handbook (London, 1955–66).
Bean, K., ‘Roads not taken’, in Belfast Exposed Photography, Portraits from a 50’s Archive (Belfast, 2005), pp. 8–19.
Bebber, B. (ed.), Leisure and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Britain (Manchester, 2012).
Belfast Municipal Museum and Art Gallery, The Museum in Pictures, Museum & Art Gallery, Stranmillis, Belfast, Souvenir (1929–1954): Illustrated Souvenir to Commemorate the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Opening of the Museum and Art Gallery, Stranmillis, Belfast, in the Summer of 1929 (Belfast, 1954).
Bell, M., Femininity in the Frame: Women and 1950s British Popular Cinema (London, 2010).
Biltereyst, D. and P. Meers, ‘Film, cinema and reception studies: revisiting research on audience’s filmic and cinematic experiences’, in Reception Studies and Audiovisual Translation, ed. E. Di Giovanni and Y. Gambier (Amsterdam, 2018), pp. 21–42.
Biltereyst, D., K. Lotze and P. Meers, ‘Triangulation in historical audience research: reflections and experiences from a multi-methodological research project on cinema audiences in Flanders’, Participations, ix (2012), 696–715.
Biltereyst, D., R. Maltby and P. Meers (eds.), Cinema, Audiences and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (Abingdon, 2012).
— The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (Abingdon 2019).
Binfield, C. (ed.), The History of the City of Sheffield 1843–1993 (Sheffield, 1993).
Boal, F. W. and S. A. Royle (eds.), Enduring City: Belfast in the Twentieth Century (Belfast, 2006).
Brennan, E., ‘Memories of television in Ireland: separating media history from nation state’, Media History, xxiv (2018), 426–39.
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Belfast in its Regional Setting: a Scientific Survey (Belfast, 1952).
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sheffield and its Region: a Scientific and Historical Survey (Sheffield, 1956).
Brodie, M., The Tele: a History of the Belfast Telegraph (Belfast, 1995).
Brooke, S., ‘Review essay: screening the postwar world: British film in the fifties’, Jour. Brit. Stud., xliv (2005), 562–9.
Browning, H. E. and A. A. Sorrell, ‘Cinemas and cinema-going in Great Britain’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, cvxii (1954), 133–70.
Brownlow, G., ‘Business and labour since 1945’, in Ulster Since 1600: Politics and Society, ed. L. Kennedy and P. Ollerenshaw (Oxford, 2012), pp. 291–307.
Bryson, A., ‘“Whatever you say, say nothing”: researching memory and identity in mid-Ulster, 1945–1969’, Oral History, xxxv (2007), 45–56.
Bryson, A. and S. McConville, The Routledge Guide to Interviewing: Oral History, Social Enquiry and Investigation (London, 2013).
Burton, A. and S. Shibnall, ‘Promotional activities and showmanship in British film exhibition’, Journal of Popular British Cinema, ii (1999), 83–99.
Buscombe, E., ‘All bark and no bite: the film industry’s response to television’, in Popular Television in Britain, ed. J. Corner (London, 1991), pp. 197–208.
Byrne, H., ‘“Going to the pictures”: the female audience and the pleasure of cinema’, in Media Audiences in Ireland, ed. M. Kelly and B. O’Connor (Dublin, 1997), pp. 88–106.
Caine, A., Interpreting Rock Movies: the Pop Film and its Critics in Britain (Manchester, 2004).
Campbell, J., ‘Movie-house memories’, Causeway: Cultural Traditions Journal, i (1994), 9–14.
Carter, M. P., Home, School and Work: a Study of the Education and Employment of Young People in Britain (Oxford, 1962).
Cathcart, R., The Most Contrary Region: the BBC in Northern Ireland (Belfast, 1984).
Central Statistical Office, Annual Abstract of Statistics, no. 84–103 (London, 1947–66).
Chapman, J., ‘Cinema, monarchy and the making of heritage: a Queen is Crowned (1953)’, in British Historical Cinema, ed. C. Monk and A. Sergeant (London, 2002), pp. 82–91.
Chapman, J., ‘“Sordidness, corruption and violence almost unrelieved”: critics, censors and the post-war British crime film’, Contemporary British Hist., xxii (2008), 181–201.
— Film and History (Basingstoke, 2013).
Chapman, J., M. Glancy and S. Harper (eds.), The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches (Basingstoke, 2007).
Chibnall, S., ‘Banging the gong: the promotional strategies of Britain’s J. Arthur Rank Organisation in the 1950s’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxxvii (2017), 242–71.
Christie, I. (ed.), Audiences: Defining and Researching Screen Entertainment Reception (Amsterdam, 2012).
City and County Borough of Belfast, Report of the Committee of Belfast Museum and Art Gallery, 1946–52 (Belfast).
Crangle, J., ‘“Left to fend for themselves”: immigration, race relations and the state in twentieth century Northern Ireland’, Immigrants and Minorities, xxxvi (2018), 20–44.
Curran, J. and V. Porter, British Cinema History (London, 1983).
Dawn, N., A. Alexander, A. Bailey and G. Shaw, ‘Investigating shopper narratives of the supermarket in early post-war England, 1945–1975’, Oral History, xxxvii (2009), 61–73.
Dickinson, M. and S. Street, Cinema and State: the Film Industry and the British Government 1927–84 (London, 1985).
Docherty, D., D. Morrison and M. Tracey, The Last Picture Show? Britain’s Changing Film Audiences (London, 1987).
Doherty, J., Standing Room Only: Memories of Belfast Cinemas (Belfast, 1997).
Donaldson, S. N. et al., ‘The 1957 epidemic of poliomyelitis in Belfast’, Ulster Medical Journal, xxix (1960), pp. 14–21.
Donnelly, K. J., ‘The policing of cinema: troubled film exhibition in Northern Ireland’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xx (2000), 385–96.
Doyle, B., ‘The geography of cinemagoing in Great Britain, 1934–1994: a comment’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxiii (2003), 59–71.
Dyja, E. (ed.), BFI Film and Television Handbook (London, 2004).
Eldridge, D., ‘Britain finds Andy Hardy: British cinema audiences and the American way of life in the Second World War’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxxi (2011), 499–521.
Eley, G., ‘Finding the people’s war: film, British collective memory, and World War II’, American Historical Review, cvi (2001), 818–38.
Elliott, M., Hearthlands: a Memoir of the White City Housing Estate in Belfast (Belfast, 2017).
Ercole, P., D. Treveri Gennari and C. O’Rawe, ‘Mapping cinema memories: emotional geographies of cinemagoing in Rome in the 1950s’, Memory Stud., x (2017), 63–77.
Eyles, A., ABC: the First Name in Entertainment (Burgess Hill, 1993).
— Gaumont British Cinemas (London, 1996).
— Odeon Cinemas: Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation (London, 2001).
— Odeon Cinemas 2: from J. Arthur Rank to the Multiplex (London, 2005).
— ‘Exhibition and the cinemagoing experience’, in The British Cinema Book, ed. R. Murphy (3rd edn, London, 2013), pp. 67–77.
Farmer, R., ‘“A temporarily vanished civilisation”: ice cream, confectionary and wartime cinema-going’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxxi (2011), 479–97.
— The Food Companions: Cinema and Consumption in Wartime Britain, 1939–45 (Manchester, 2011).
— Cinemas and Cinema-going in Wartime Britain, 1939–45: the Utility Dream Palace (Manchester, 2016).
Field, A., Picture Palace: a Social History of the Cinema (London, 1974).
Field, D. E. and D. G. Neill, A Survey of New Housing Estates in Belfast: a Social and Economic Study of the Estates Built by the Northern Ireland Housing Trust in the Belfast Area 1945–1954 (Belfast, 1957).
Finlay, G., ‘“Celluloid menace”, art or the “essential habit of the age”?’, History Ireland, xv (2007), 34–40.
Fowler, D., Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c. 1920–1970 (London, 2008).
Frazier, A., Hollywood Irish: John Ford, Abbey Actors and the Irish Revival in Hollywood (Dublin, 2011).
Geraghty, C., British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the ‘New Look’ (London, 2000).
Gibbons, L., The Quiet Man (Cork, 2002).
Gifford, D., The British Film Catalogue 1895–1985: a Reference Guide (Newton Abbot, 1986).
Gilbey, R. (ed.), The Ultimate Film: the UK’s 100 Most Popular Films (London, 2005).
Gillett, P., The British Working Class in Postwar Film (Manchester, 2003).
Glancy, M., ‘Picturegoer: the fan magazine and popular film culture during the Second World War’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxxi (2011), 453–78.
— Hollywood and the Americanization of Britain: from the 1920s to the Present (London, 2014).
Glen, P., ‘“Exploiting the daydreams of teenagers”: press reports and memories of cinema-going by young people in 1960s Britain’, Media History, xxv (2019), 355–470.
Government of Northern Ireland General Register Office, Census of Population 1961: Belfast County Borough (Belfast, 1963).
Government of Northern Ireland, Juvenile Delinquency: Interim Report of the Northern Ireland Child Welfare Council (Belfast, 1954).
Griffiths, T., The Cinema and Cinema-Going in Scotland, 1896–1950 (Edinburgh, 2013).
Hall, S., ‘Going to the Gaumont’, Picture House, xlii (2018), 50–67.
Hampton, W., Democracy and Community: a Study of Politics in Sheffield (London, 1970).
Hansard (Northern Ireland), Parliamentary Debates.
Hanson, S., From Silent Screen to Multi-Screen: a History of Cinema Exhibition since 1896 (Manchester, 2007).
Harman, R. and J. Minnis, Pevsner Architectural Guides: Sheffield (London, 2004).
Harper, S., ‘A lower middle-class taste community in the 1930s: admissions figures at the Regent cinema, Portsmouth, UK’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxiv (2004), 565–87.
— ‘Fragmentation and crisis: 1940s admission figures at the Regent Cinema, Portsmouth, UK’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxvi (2006), 361–94.
— ‘“It is time we went out to meet them”: empathy and historical distance’, Participations, xvi (2019), 687–97
Harper, S. and V. Porter, ‘Moved to tears: weeping in the cinema in postwar Britain’, Screen, xxxvii (1996), 152–73.
— ‘Throbbing hearts and smart repartee: the reception of American films in 1950s Britain’, Media History, iv (1998), 175–93.
— ‘Cinema audience tastes in 1950s Britain’, Journal of Popular British Cinema, ii (1999), 66–82.
— British Cinema of the 1950s: the Decline of Deference (Oxford, 2003).
Henderson, B., Brum: a Life in Television (Belfast, 2003).
Hennessey, P., Never Again: Britain 1945–1951 (London, 1992).
— Having it so Good: Britain in the Fifties (London, 2006).
Hepburn, A. C., A Past Apart: Studies in the History of Catholic Belfast, 1850–1950 (Belfast, 1996).
Hey, D., A History of Sheffield (Lancaster, 2011).
Hiley, N., ‘“Let’s go to the pictures”: the British cinema audience in the 1920s and 1930s’, Journal of Popular British Cinema, ii (1999), 39–53.
Hill, J., Sex, Class and Realism: British Cinema 1956–63 (London, 1986).
— Cinema and Northern Ireland (London, 2006).
Hilton, M., Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800–2000 (Manchester, 2000).
Hodges, M. W. and C. S. Smith, ‘The Sheffield estate’, in Neighbourhood and Community: an Enquiry into Social Relationships on Housing Estates in Liverpool and Sheffield, ed. T. S. Simey (Liverpool, 1954), pp. 79–134.
Holmes, S., British TV and Film Culture of the 1950s (Bristol, 2005). Holt, R. and T. Mason, Sport in Britain 1945–2000 (Oxford, 2000).
Horn, A., Juke Box Britain: Americanisation and Youth Culture 1945–60 (Manchester, 2009).
Hughes, T., How Belfast Saw the Light: a Cinematic History (Newtonards, 2014).
Hunter I. Q., L. Porter and J. Smith (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Cinema History (Abingdon, 2017)
Jackson, L. A. and A. Bartie, Policing Youth: Britain 1945–70 (Manchester, 2014).
James, R., ‘‘‘A very profitable enterprise’’: South Wales Miners’ Institute cinemas in the 1930s’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxvii (2007), 27–61.
— Popular Culture and Working-Class Taste in Britain, 1930–39: a Round of Cheap Diversions? (Manchester, 2010).
— ‘Popular film-going in Britain in the 1930s’, Jour. Contemp. Hist., lxvii (2011), 271–87.
— ‘Cinema-going in a port town, 1914–1951: film booking patterns at the Queens Cinema, Portsmouth’, Urban History, xl (2013), 315–35.
Jancovich, M., L. Faire and S. Stubbings, The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption (London, 2003).
Jarvie, I., ‘International film trade: Hollywood and the British market’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, iii (1983) 161–9.
— ‘British trade policy versus Hollywood, 1947–1948: “food before flicks”?’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vi (1986), 19–41.
— ‘“These intimate little places”: cinema-going and public emotion in Bolton, 1930–1954’, Cult. and Soc. History (2019), doi.org/10.1080/14780 038.2019.1609801.
Jones, E., A Social Geography of Belfast (London, 1960).
Jones, M., ‘Far from swinging London: memories of non-urban cinema-going in 1960s Britain’, in Cinema Beyond the City: Small-Town and Rural Film Culture in Europe, ed. J. Thissen and C. Zimmerman (London, 2017), pp. 117–32.
Kinematograph Year Book, 1945–59 (London).
Kinematograph and Television Year Book, 1961–66 (London).
Kuhn, A., An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (London, 2002).
Kuhn, A., D. Biltereyst and P. Meers, ‘Memories of cinema-going and film experience: an introduction’, Memory Stud., x (2017), 3–16.
Kynaston, D., Austerity Britain: 1945–51 (London, 2007).
— Family Britain: 1951–57 (London, 2009).
— Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59 (London, 2013).
— Modernity Britain: a Shake of the Dice, 1959–62 (London, 2014).
Lacey, J., ‘Seeing through happiness: Hollywood musicals and the construction of the American dream in Liverpool in the 1950s’, Journal of Popular British Cinema, ii (1999), 54–65.
Lamberti, E. (ed.), Behind the Scenes at the BBFC: Film Classification from the Silver Screen to the Digital Age (London, 2012).
Langhamer, C., Women’s Leisure in England: 1920–1960 (Manchester, 2000).
— The English in Love: the Intimate Story of an Emotional Revolution (Oxford, 2013).
Larmour, P., ‘Cinema paradiso’, Perspective, iv (1996), 23–7.
— ‘The big feature’, Perspective, v (1997), 29–36.
Lewis, A., ‘Planning through conflict: the genesis of Sheffield’s post-war reconstruction plan’, Planning Perspectives, xxiv (2009), 381–3.
— ‘Planning through conflict: competing approaches in the preparation of Sheffield’s post-war reconstruction plan’, Planning Perspectives, xxviii (2013), 27–49.
Lowell Macdonald, R., The Appreciation of Film: the Postwar Film Society Movement and Film Culture in Britain (Exeter, 2016).
Lynch, J., A Tale of Three Cities: Comparative Studies in Working-Class Life (Basingstoke, 1998).
Machale, D., The Complete Guide to The Quiet Man (Belfast, 2000).
Mcbride, S. and R. Flynn (eds.) Here’s Looking at You, Kid! Ireland Goes to the Pictures (Dublin, 1996).
Mccormick, L., Regulating Sexuality: Women in Twentieth-Century Northern Ireland (Manchester, 2009).
McGuinness, D., ‘Media consumption and Dublin working class cultural identity’ (unpublished Dublin City University PhD thesis, 1999).
McKibbin, R., Classes and Cultures: England 1918–1951 (London, 1998).
McKillop, I. and N. Sinyard (eds.), British Cinema in the 1950s: a Celebration (Manchester, 2003).
Macnab, G., J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry (London, 1994).
— Delivering Dreams: a Century of British Film Distribution (London, 2016).
Maguire, W., Belfast: a History (Lancaster, 2009).
Maltby, R. and M. Stokes (eds.), American Movie Audiences: from the Turn of the Century to the Early Sound Era (London, 1999).
— (eds.), Identifying Hollywood’s Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies (London, 1999).
— (eds.), Hollywood Spectatorship: Changing Perceptions of Cinema Audiences (London, 2001).
— (eds.), Hollywood Abroad: Audiences and Cultural Exchange (London, 2004).
Maltby, R., D. Biltereyst and P. Meers (eds.), Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (Chichester, 2011).
Maltby, R., M. Stokes and R. C. Allen (eds.) Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema (Exeter, 2007).
Manning, S., ‘Post-war cinema-going and working-class communities: a case study of the Holyland, Belfast, 1945–1962’, Cult. and Soc. History, xiii (2016), 539–55.
— ‘Television and the decline of cinema-going in Northern Ireland, 1953–63’, Media History, xxiv (2018), 408–25.
Manvell, R., The Film and the Public (Harmondsworth, 1954).
Martin, A., Going to the Pictures: Scottish Memories of Cinema (Edinburgh, 2000).
Mayer, J. P., British Cinemas and their Audiences (London, 1948).
Middleton, R., The British Economy since 1945 (Basingstoke, 2000).
Miskell, P., A Social History of the Cinema in Wales, 1918–1951 (Cardiff, 2006).
Mitchell, G. A. M., ‘Reassessing “the generation gap”: Bill Haley’s 1957 tour of Britain, inter-generational relations and attitudes to rock ‘n’ roll in the late 1950s’, Twentieth Century British Hist., xxiv (2013), 573–605.
Moran, J., Armchair Nation: an Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV (London, 2013).
Northern Ireland Ministry of Finance, Digest of Statistics Northern Ireland, nos. 1–10, (Belfast, 1954–63).
Nott, J., Going to the Palais: a Social and Cultural History of Dancing and Dance Halls in Britain, 1918–1960 (Oxford, 2015).
O’Brien, M. and A. Eyles (eds.) Enter the Dream-House: Memories of South London Cinema from the Twenties to the Sixties (London, 1993).
O’Connell, S. J., ‘An age of conservative modernity, 1914–1968’, in Belfast 400: People, Place and History, ed. S. J. Connolly (Liverpool, 2012), pp. 271–316.
— ‘Violence and social memory in twentieth-century Belfast: stories of Buck Alec Robinson’, Jour. Brit. Stud., liii (2014), 734–56.
O’Leary, E., ‘Teenagers, everyday life and popular culture in 1950s Ireland’ (unpublished National University of Ireland, Maynooth PhD thesis, 2013).
Open, M., Fading Lights, Silver Screens: a History of Belfast Cinemas (Antrim, 1985).
Örnebring, H., ‘Writing the history of television audiences: the coronation in the mass-observation archive’, in Re-viewing Tekvision History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography, ed. H. Wheatley (London, 2007), pp. 170–83.
Osgerby, B., Youth in Britain since 1945 (Oxford, 1998).
Patton, M., Central Belfast: a Historical Gazetteer (Belfast, 1993).
Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Yorkshire West Riding (London, 1967).
Political and Economic Planning, The British Film Industry (London, 1952).
— The British Film Industry 1958 (London, 1958).
Poole, J., ‘British cinema attendance in wartime: audience preference at the Majestic, Macclesfield, 1939–1946’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vii (1987), 15–34.
Pybus, S. (ed.), Damned Bad Place, Sheffield: an Anthology of Writing About Sheffield Through the Ages (Sheffield, 1994).
Ramsden, J., ‘Refocusing “the people’s war”: British war films of the 1950s’, Journal of Contemporary History, xxxiii (1998), 35–63.
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Richards, J., ‘The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in film’, The Court Historian, ix (2004), 69–79.
— The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in 1930s Britain (3rd edn, London, 2009).
— Cinema and Radio in Britain and America: 1920–1960 (Manchester, 2010).
Ritchie, D. A., Doing Oral History (2nd edn, Oxford, 2003).
— (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Oral History (Oxford, 2011).
Robertson, A., The Bleak Midwinter 1947 (Manchester, 1987).
Rockett, K., Irish Film Censorship: a Cultural Journey from Silent Cinema to Internet Pornography (Dublin, 2004).
Rockett, K. and E. Rockett, Film Exhibition and Distribution in Ireland: 1909–2011 (Dublin, 2011).
Roodhouse, M., ‘“In racket town”: gangster chic in austerity Britain, 1939–1953’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, xxxi (2011), 523–41.
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Savage, R., A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960–72 (Manchester, 2010).
Screen Advertising Association, Spotlight on the Cinema Audience (London, 1962).
Sedgwick, J., Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: a Choice of Pleasures (Exeter, 2000).
— ‘Product differentiation at the movies: Hollywood, 1946 to 1965’, Jour. Econ. Hist., lxii (2002), 676–705.
Sedgwick, J., P. Miskell and M. Nicoli, ‘The market for films in postwar Italy: evidence for both national and regional patterns of taste’, Enterprise & Society, xx (2019), 199–228.
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Shail, R., The Children’s Film Foundation: History and Legacy (London, 2016).
Shaw, C., Images of England: Sheffield Cinemas (Stroud, 2001).
Shaw, C. and S. Smith, Sheffield Cinemas: Past and Present (Sheffield, 1999).
Shaw, C. and C. Stacey, ‘A century of cinema’, in Aspects of Sheffield 2: Discovering Local History, ed. M. Jones (Barnsley, 1999), pp. 182–200.
Shaw, T., British Cinema and the Cold War: the State, Propaganda and Consensus (London, 2001).
Sheffield Cinema Society, The A.B.C. of the Cinemas of Sheffield (Sheffield, 1993).
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Smyth, P., Changing Times: Life in 1950s Northern Ireland (Newtonards, 2012).
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