Windows on the Sixties: Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture

Description

Key media reference points of the 1960s, including The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, are the focus of this book. Each chapter addresses common issues of contexts of production and reception, of genre, style and aesthetics and the book as a whole draws together the impressions of the era given by these windows on the sixties. Contents Contributors Preface Introduction: Locating Key Texts Amid the Distinctive Landscape of the Sixties NOTES TO INTRODUCTION 1 A Walk on the Wilder Side: The Apartment as Social Commentary NOTES TO CHAPTER 1 2 Defining the Parameters of 'Quality’ Cinema for 'the Permissive Society’: The British Board of Film Censors and This Sporting Life NOTES TO CHAPTER 2 3 The Avengers: Television and Popular Culture During the 'High Sixties' NOTES TO CHAPTER 3 4 Seven Days in May: History, Prophecy and Propaganda NOTES TO CHAPTER 4 5 'Nothing Like Any Previous Musical, British or American’: The Beatles' Film, A Hard Day's Night NOTES TO CHAPTER 5 6 Three Alison Lurie Novels of the long Sixties NOTES TO CHAPTER 6 7 The Brilliant Career of Sgt Pepper NOTES TO CHAPTER 7 8 Panorama in the Sixties NOTES TO CHAPTER 8 Conclusion NOTES TO CONCLUSION