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

by Anthony Aldgate (Editor), James Chapman (Editor), Arthur Marwick (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781860643835
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/15/2000
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.36(w) x 9.26(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Anthony Aldgate is Reader in Film and History, James Chapman is Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, and Arthur Marwick is Professor of History, all at The Open University.

Table of Contents

Locating Key Texts Amid the Distinctive Landscape of the Sixties--Arthur Marwick
• A Walk on the Wilder Side--Daniel J. Leab
• Defining the parameters of "quality" cinema for "the permissive society": the British Board of Film Censors andd "This Sporting Life"--Anthonly Aldgate
• The Avengers--James Chapman
• Seven Days in May-- Michael Coyne
• "Nothing Like Any Previous Musical, British or American": The Beatle's Film, A Hard Day's Night--Rowana Agajanian
• Three Alison Lurie Novels of the Long Sixties--Arthur Marwick
• The Brilliant Career of Sgt. Pepper--Alan Moore
• Panorama in the Sixties--Robert Rowland

Editorial Reviews

Eight case studies in which members of the British Open University's Sixties Research Group and other scholars explore themes arising from the cultural revolution of the 1960s in the US and Britain by analyzing influential media productions of the decade. , , and a movie and album by The Beatles are among the windows. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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