Title Literature and Culture in Modern Britain : Volume Three: 1956-1999 / edited by Clive Bloom and Gary Day

Published New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; List of Contributors; Dedication; Chronology; Introduction; Economic and social policy; Culture; Conclusion; 1. British Poetry 1956-99; The poetics of cliché; Chance encounters: Larkin, Tomlinson; Metamorphoses: Fisher, Clark; Autobiographies: Betjeman, Bunting, Prynne; Two varieties of irony; 2. Novel Voices; Rogue males; Lone voices; From the middle-brow to the high forehead: women-centred fiction; The dark gods; Empire; Experimental literature; Genre fiction; The postmodern 'There's no such thing as society . . .'Martin Amis; Voice projections; 3. Popular Fiction; Market stall to global market; Fictions galore; Consuming passions; Popular fiction: The Legacy; 4. Lifting the Lid: Theatre 1956-99; Prologue; What is 'theatre'?; Beyond censorship; Lost Edens: politics and nostalgia; A humanist theatre; The music hall; Joe Orton and the outrage of Mrs Edna Welthorpe; The presence of Harold Pinter; Ayckbourn: a singular exception; Conclusion: theatre and the segmented society; 5. British Newspapers 'A dreadful, long-running detective story': reporting the case of the Yorkshire RipperConclusion; 6. British Cinema: A Struggle for Identity; The British 'new wave'; The social problem film; Hammer horror: the return of the repressed; Carry On and the 'carnivalesque'; The Empire strikes back?; 'Swinging London'; The 1970s: mainstream decline and the rise of independent cinema; British cinema and Thatcherism; The British film renaissance of the 1990s; 7. Television; The impact of ITV on the BBC; The 'Golden Age' of British television; British television in the 1970s: a mirror to society? The 1980s: Channel 4, competition and deregulationBritish television in the 1990s; 8. British Art; The avant-garde moves home: Paris to New York; 'The situation in London now'; Abstraction -- a new realism?; ... and the situation in St Ives; IG, TIT and pop; Later pop; Challenging modernism: artists with attitude; When concept replaced the unique art object; A crisis of modernity? The emergence of postmodernism and anti-modernism; 'Nostalgia for the unattainable'; Some went mad ... some ran away; 9. Popular Music since the 1950s; Popular music before pop Aspects of amateurism: folk roots and r 'n' bProfessionalism and pop; The 1960s and after; The ambivalence of broadcasting; Youth and music; The urban soundscape; Let's mix again; 10. Technology 1956-99; What is technology and where is it taking us?; The information explosion; Genetic engineering; Outcomes of the high tech. process; Final thoughts; 11. Epilogue and Overture; The role of the university; Criticism at the end of the century; New and future approaches; British culture at the Millennium; Index Summary British culture has changed almost beyond recognition since 1956. Angry young men have been displaced by Yuppies, Elvis by the Spice Girls, and meat and two veg by continental cuisine. What is more, as the death of Diana, Princess of Wales showed, the British are now more famous for a trembling lower lip than a stiff upper one. This volume, the last in the series, examines the transformations in literature and culture over the last forty years. An introductory essay provides a context for the following chapters by arguing that although there have been significant changes in British l Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- 20th century -- Social aspects Popular culture -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Civilization English literature English literature -- Social aspects Intellectual life Popular culture SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056858 Great Britain -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056627 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Bloom, Clive Day, Gary ISBN 9781317897538 1317897536

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