Raymond F. Betts was Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and the author of many books on culture and empire, including Decolonization (Routledge 2004).

• Preface.  Introduction.  1. Popular culture in an early twentieth-century environment  2. Popular culture joins the war effort  3. Reconfiguing time and space  4. Picture this: a new world of images  5. All the world's a stage: contemporary entertainment in its many forms  6. Happily spaced out: the topography of pleasure and diversion  7. The unintended outcomes  Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition.  Buibilography.  Index.

Raymond F. Betts was Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and the author of many books on culture and empire, including Decolonization (Routledge 2004).

• Preface.  Introduction.  1. Popular culture in an early twentieth-century environment  2. Popular culture joins the war effort  3. Reconfiguing time and space  4. Picture this: a new world of images  5. All the world's a stage: contemporary entertainment in its many forms  6. Happily spaced out: the topography of pleasure and diversion  7. The unintended outcomes  Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition.  Buibilography.  Index.

Raymond F. Betts was Professor of History at the University of Kentucky and the author of many books on culture and empire, including Decolonization (Routledge 2004).

• Preface.  Introduction.  1. Popular culture in an early twentieth-century environment  2. Popular culture joins the war effort  3. Reconfiguing time and space  4. Picture this: a new world of images  5. All the world's a stage: contemporary entertainment in its many forms  6. Happily spaced out: the topography of pleasure and diversion  7. The unintended outcomes  Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition.  Buibilography.  Index.