Censorship and the permissive society

British cinema and theatre, 1955-1965

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Censorship and the permissive society

British cinema and theatre, 1955-1965

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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. 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 changes affecting British society at the time.

A key decade in the postwar social and cultural history of Britain, the period saw the country emerge from the 'doldrums era' of the fifties, to the permissive society of the 'swinging sixties'. A noticeable move towards 'decensorship' increasingly loosened the traditional constraints imposed on literature, stage, and films.

Anthony Aldgate shows, however, that censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of this period, and how the process brought changes in the works of writers such as John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe, John Braine, Frederic Raphael, and Keith Waterhouse, and directors such as Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, John Schlesinger, and Lewis Gilbert.

Drawing upon a mass of recently released or hitherto unseen documentation - including records, files, and photographs from the British Board of Film Censors and the Lord Chamberlain's Office - Anthony Aldgate charts the impact of the censorship process between 1955 and 1965 upon playwrights and directors, many of whom endured the rigorous, sometimes rancorous, though often also fruitful, scrutiny of the film and theatre censors.

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Censorship and the Permissive Society: British Cinema and Theatre, 1955-1965
February 6, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA
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Cover of: Censorship and the Permissive Society
Censorship and the Permissive Society: British Cinema and Theatre, 1955-1965
1995, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Censorship and the permissive society
Censorship and the permissive society: British cinema and theatre, 1955-1965
1995, Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-168) and index.

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Oxford, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.3/1
Library of Congress
PN1995.65.G7 A43 1995, PN1995.65.G7A43 1995

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Pagination
viii, 171 p. :
Number of pages
171

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Open Library
OL1105524M
Internet Archive
censorshippermis0000aldg
ISBN 10
0198112416, 0198183526
LCCN
94030668
OCLC/WorldCat
30971331
Library Thing
4669104
Goodreads
2363511

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