Comparative Film Popularity in Three English Cities—Bolton, Brighton, and Portsmouth: An Exercise in POPSTAT Methodology

John Sedgwick ()
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John Sedgwick: Oxford Brookes University

A chapter in Towards a Comparative Economic History of Cinema, 1930–1970, 2022, pp 65-86 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract For 1934, film popularity (POPSTAT) statistics of three small English cities, Bolton, Brighton, and Portsmouth, are derived from daily local newspapers and used to investigate audience preferences. Box-office information for the Regent cinema, Portsmouth, is used to corroborate the POPSTAT Index values of those films screened during the year. A high correlation between the two is found. Comparisons between the POPSTAT charts are conducted using the RelPOP method, and differences in preferences are found for some British films. At the same time, many Hollywood productions are similarly popular across the three cities.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-05770-0_4

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