Pop culture in post-war UK

Richard Hoggart, The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life (1957)

Edgar P. Thompson, Making of the English Working Class (1963)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_the_English_Working_Class

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958)
http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2760

Ealing Comedies

* Hue and Cry (1947)
* Another Shore (1948)
* Passport to Pimlico (1949)
* Whisky Galore! (1949)
* Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
* A Run for Your Money (1949)
* The Magnet (1950)
* The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
* The Man in the White Suit (1951)
* The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
* Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)
* The Love Lottery (1954)
* The Maggie (1954)
* The Ladykillers (1955)
* Who Done It? (1956)
* Barnacle Bill (1957)

British New Wave

* Room at the Top (1959)
* Look Back in Anger (John Osborne: 1956, Tony Richardson: 1959)
* Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Alan Sillitoe: 1958, Karel Reisz: 1960)
* Hell Is a City (1960)
* The Entertainer (John Osborne: 1957, Tony Richardson: 1960)
* A Taste of Honey (Shelagh Delaney: 1958, Tony Richardson: 1961)
* A Kind of Loving (John Schlesinger: 1962)
* The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Alan Sillitoe: 1959, Tony Richardson: 1962)
* Billy Liar (John Schlesinger: 1963)
* This Sporting Life (Lindsay Anderson: 1963)
* Tom Jones (1963)
* A Hard Day's Night (1964)
* The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
* Kes (Ken Loach: 1969)