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Mind Map by lizzie.lambrou, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by lizzie.lambrou
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Changing Attitudes in Culture and the Media, 1951-64
- Early 1950s
- Deference to authority still strong
- Mass entertainment (mostly cinema
and BBC) was cosy and reassuring
- Huge radio audiences for
programmers like The Archers
- Cinema dominated by war epics
(The Cruel Sea) and Ealing
comedies (The Lavendir Hill Mob)
- Reinforced existing attitudes to class
- However, cinema influence started to
decline as TV took over
- However, cinema influence started to
decline as TV took over
- Reinforced existing attitudes to class
- Deference to authority still strong
- Culture began to reflect current society
- Gang violence chillingly
portrayed in Anthony
Burgess's 1962 novel A
Clockwork Orange
- Television
- Cosy and comforting police series
replaced by gritty realism of Z Cars, set
in a new town on Merseyside
- Campaigning programmes designed to
raise controversy about social issues
- Cathy Come Home - powerful drama
about homelessness in 1962
- Cathy Come Home - powerful drama
about homelessness in 1962
- Cosy and comforting police series
replaced by gritty realism of Z Cars, set
in a new town on Merseyside
- Films
- Alienation of young working-class
males was theme of several films
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - big hit in 1960
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - big hit in 1960
- Racial tensions was theme
of Sapphire
- 1959 crime thriller,
daring portrayal of sex
and violence
- 1959 crime thriller,
daring portrayal of sex
and violence
- Alienation of young working-class
males was theme of several films
- Gang violence chillingly
portrayed in Anthony
Burgess's 1962 novel A
Clockwork Orange
- Drive to break down censorship and social taboos
- Several plays and films pushed out boundaries
- Portraying sex on screen
- Dealing more openly with
issues like homosexuality or
back-street abortions
- Portraying sex on screen
- 1962, Penguin Books caused a
storm by publishing D. H.
Lawrence's sexually explicit novel
Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Resulted in high-profile court case under the Obscenity Act
- Resulted in high-profile court case under the Obscenity Act
- Several plays and films pushed out boundaries
- 'Satire boom'
- Beyond The Fringe
- Satirical stage show by Peter Cook,
Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and
Alan Bennett that made big impact
- Satirical stage show by Peter Cook,
Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and
Alan Bennett that made big impact
- Private Eye
- From 1961 rapidly established a
loyal following for its witty
disrespect for the great and famous
- From 1961 rapidly established a
loyal following for its witty
disrespect for the great and famous
- That Was The Week That Was
- 1962, made its debut on BBC,
delighting half the nation and
scandalising the other half
- 1962, made its debut on BBC,
delighting half the nation and
scandalising the other half
- Beyond The Fringe
- Middle-class backlash
- Against the new 'immorality
and depravity'
- Led by Mary Whitehouse and
supported by parts of the national press
- 1964 Clean Up TV campaign
- 1964 Clean Up TV campaign
- Against the new 'immorality
and depravity'
- In general, majority opinion in Britain was
socially conservative and much of Britain's
popular culture remained in the same old groove
- Class system dented by shifts in social sttitudes but certainly not broken
- Class system dented by shifts in social sttitudes but certainly not broken
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