Windows on the Sixties

Exploring Key Texts of Media and Culture

By: Anthony Aldgate (Editor), James Chapman (Editor), Arthur Marwick (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 May 2000 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: Locating Key Texts Amid the Distinctive Landscape of the Sixties	p. xi
A Walk on the Wilder Side: The Apartment as Social Commentary	p. 1
Defining the Parameters of 'Quality' Cinema for 'the Permissive Society': The British Board of Film Censors and This Sporting Life	p. 19
The Avengers: Television and Popular Culture During the 'High Sixties'	p. 37
Seven Days in May: History, Prophecy and Propaganda	p. 70
'Nothing Like any Previous Musical, British or American': The Beatles' Film, a Hard Day's Night	p. 91
Three Alison Lurie Novels of the Long Sixties	p. 114
The Brilliant Career of Sgt Pepper	p. 139
Panorama in the Sixties	p. 154
Conclusion	p. 183
Index	p. 188
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Windows on the Sixties

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