Censorship & Society

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 1955-1965. Indeed, censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of the period, and John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, and John Schlesinger are just a few of the people who were forced to change their work.;"Censorship and the Permissive Society" explores the predicament writers and directors faced, and highlights the debate over the liberalizing, or progressive aspects of, the sea of changes affecting British society at the time.;This study should be of interest to: anyone interested in film, theatre, and popular culture, (including students of film, media, and theatre studies); readers interested in postwar social and cultural Britain; and students of literary and theatre history, film and history, and media/mass communications.