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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 investigation can reveal about the great social and cultural transformation of the decade.

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

Introduction - locating key texts amid the distinctive landscape of the 60s, Arthur Marwick; a walk on the wilder side -"The Apartment" as social commentary, Daniel J. Leab; defining the parameters of "quality" cinema for "the permissive society" - the British Board of Film Censors and "This Sporting Life", Anthony Aldgate; "The Avengers" - television and popular culture during the "high 60s", James Chapman; "Seven Days in May" - history, prophecy and propaganda, Michael Coyne; "nothing like any previous musical, British or American" - the Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night", Rowana Agajanian; three Alison Lurie novels of the long 60s, Arthur Marwick; the brilliant career of "Sgt. Pepper", Allan F. Moore; "Panorama" in the 60s, Robert Rowland; conclusion, Arthur Marwick.