''The Picturegoers'' (1960) is the first

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by British writer David Lodge. The novel interweaves scenes at and near a neighborhood movie theatre, using movies as a touchstone for exploring Catholic values in a changing world, where the cinema introduces values and behaviors from the greater society that differ from those of the traditional community. Various characters are portrayed, representing, to a certain extent, common types of people in a small earlyish twentieth-century British London neighborhood, though the focus is on one lower-middle-class family.

Literature

* « Conservative Radicalism » : Le roman catholique britannique contemporain, by Jean-Michel Ganteau, ''Voices from British Literature'', http://ebc.chez-alice.fr/ebc157.html, pp. 152~154. 1960 British novels Novels by David Lodge Novels set in London 1960 debut novels Catholic novels MacGibbon & Kee books {{1960s-novel-stub