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Seven Up
Seven Up was made as a one-off documentary by Granada's flagship current affairs series "World in Action" in 1964. It featured fourteen seven-year-olds who were interviewed about their lives and what they wanted to be when they grew up. The children were selected to provide a representative cross-section of British society, and the program's intention was to test the Jesuit maxim - "give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" - in the context of the British belief in the overriding and determining importance of class origins. The series developed into subsequent programs, filmed at seven-year intervals, the most recent being "49 Up, "broadcast in 2005.
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Seven Up
Seven Up was made as a one-off documentary by Granada's flagship current affairs series "World in Action" in 1964. It featured fourteen seven-year-olds who were interviewed about their lives and what they wanted to be when they grew up. The children were selected to provide a representative cross-section of British society, and the program's intention was to test the Jesuit maxim - "give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" - in the context of the British belief in the overriding and determining importance of class origins. The series developed into subsequent programs, filmed at seven-year intervals, the most recent being "49 Up, "broadcast in 2005.
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Seven Up

Seven Up

by Stella Bruzzi
Seven Up

Seven Up

by Stella Bruzzi

Overview

Seven Up was made as a one-off documentary by Granada's flagship current affairs series "World in Action" in 1964. It featured fourteen seven-year-olds who were interviewed about their lives and what they wanted to be when they grew up. The children were selected to provide a representative cross-section of British society, and the program's intention was to test the Jesuit maxim - "give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man" - in the context of the British belief in the overriding and determining importance of class origins. The series developed into subsequent programs, filmed at seven-year intervals, the most recent being "49 Up, "broadcast in 2005.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781844571963
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/31/1999
Series: BFI TV Classics
Edition description: 2007
Pages: 160
Product dimensions: 5.41(w) x 7.49(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

STELLA BRUZZI is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of 'Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Post-war Hollywood' (BFI 2005) and 'New Documentary: A Critical Introduction' (Second edition, 2006).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1Production History
2The Place of Seven Up within British
Documentary History
3Textual Analysis
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Credits
Index
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