British railway enthusiasm Carter, Ian
Publication details: Manchester Manchester University Press, 2008; Studies in popular culture, Description: 316 sISBN:- 9780719065668
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This is the only scholarly work ever to investigate this topic, despite its huge significance for understanding a key leisure experience shared by most male Britons in the second half of the twentieth century. It offers radical interdisciplinarity, showing the virtue of pursuing a topic across tightly policed borders between different academic disciplines. It takes railway enthusiasts' life-world seriously, unpacking and critiquing the contemporary popular cultural stereotype of train spotters as a British object of ridicule. It benefits from a light and witty authorial touch, while never less than authoritative.