This revised edition up-dates the authors' demonstration of how a close study of films, in their historical and cultural settings, can enrich understanding of both cinema and historical events.
Stage or film presentations of "Look Back in Anger", "A Taste of Honey", "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Alfie", and "Darling" were much changed, even transformed, by censorship between 1955-196...
Contributors focus on such key media texts of the 1960s as The Avengers, This Sporting Life, Panorama, The Apartment and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, demonstrating what close textual investig...