Cultural Revolution?

by Moore-Gilbert; BART

• ISBN13: 9780415078245
• ISBN10: 0415078245
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-09-16
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Are the cultural upheavals of the 1960s nothing more than a media myth, recycled as endless nostalgia? Woodstock, the Summer of Love, student protests, the debacle that was the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago evoke a period of material prosperity, cultural innovation, and youthful rebellion. But how far did the radical aspirations and utopian ideals really go? And what is the legacy of the social, political, and cultural transformations which characterized the decade? In an interdisciplinary collection of specially commissioned essays,Cultural Revolution?uncovers the complex economic and political contexts in which these changes took place. Covering a wide variety of art forms--drama, television, music, film, poetry, literature, and the visual arts--the contributors investigate how the culture of the 1960s became politicized, and how its inherent contradictions still have repercussions for the arts today. Cultural Revolution?will be animportant resource for students and teachers involved in cultural studies, and media and communication studies.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Hegemony postponed: the unravelling of the culture of consensus in Britain in the 1960s	p. 15
The new radicalism: the politics of culture in Britain, America and France, 1956-73	p. 45
The politics of culture: institutional change	p. 72
From equality to liberation: contextualizing the emergence of the Women's Liberation Movement	p. 96
A critical stage: drama in the 1960s	p. 118
Inside the liberal heartland: television and the popular imagination in the 1960s	p. 139
British poetry and its discontents	p. 160
The return of the repressed: Gothic and the 1960s novel	p. 181
Step by step: the cautious revolution in dance	p. 200
New waves and old myths: British cinema in the 1960s	p. 218
Still crazy after all these years: what was popular music in the 1960s?	p. 236
Caro verbum factus est: British art in the 1960s?	p. 255
Index	p. 279
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