Literature and Culture in Modern Britain:

This book examines the transformation in literature and culture over the last forty years in Britain. An introductory essay provides a context for the following chapters which examines the changes and continuities in British life. It also discusses the rise of 'theory' and its impact on the humanities.Each essay concentrates on a facet of British culture, from painting to poetry, from the seriousness of the novel to the postmodern ironies of the computing age. Provides an informed history of the relations between literature and cultural change and identifies the crucial relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, movies, music and radio.For those interested in popular British Culture. ALSO AVAILABLE IN HARDCOVER: 0-582-07553-X.

Acknowledgements

viii

Series Preface

ix

List of Contributors

x

Chronology

xii

Introduction

1

(1)

Gary Day

Economic and social policy

1

(10)

Culture

11

(7)

Conclusion

18

(7)

British Poetry 1956--99

25

(26)

Jessica Maynard

The poetics of cliche

25

(3)

Chance encounters: Larkin, Tomlinson

28

(4)

Metamorphoses: Fisher, Clark

32

(5)

Autobiographies: Betjeman, Bunting, Prynne

37

(8)

Two varieties of irony

45

(6)

Novel Voices

51

(25)

Steven Earnshaw

Rogue males

53

(1)

Lone voices

54

(2)

From the middle-brow to the high forehead: women-centred fiction

56

(2)

The dark gods

58

(2)

Empire

60

(2)

Experimental literature

62

(1)

Genre fiction

63

(1)

The postmodern

64

(4)

`There's no such thing as society...'

68

(2)

Martin Amis

70

(1)

Voice projections

71

(5)

Popular Fiction

76

(18)

Michael Hayes

Market stall to global market

78

(3)

Fictions galore

81

(5)

Consuming passions

86

(3)

Popular fiction: The Legacy

89

(5)

Lifting the Lid: Theatre 1956--99

94

(31)

Michael Woolf

Prologue

94

(2)

What is `theatre'?

96

(4)

Beyond censorship

100

(5)

Lost Edens: politics and nostalgia

105

(2)

A humanist theatre

107

(2)

The music hall

109

(1)

Joe Orton and the outrage of Mrs Edna Welthorpe

110

(3)

The presence of Harold Pinter

113

(2)

Ayckbourn: a singular exception

115

(2)

Conclusion: theatre and the segmented society

117

(8)

British Newspapers

125

(18)

Nicholas Rance

`A dreadful, long-running detective story': reporting the case of the Yorkshire Ripper

135

(4)

Conclusion

139

(4)

British Cinema: A Struggle for Identity

143

(34)

Lez Cooke

The British `new wave'

146

(3)

The social problem film

149

(2)

Hammer horror: the return of the repressed

151

(4)

Carry On and the `carnivalesque'

155

(1)

The Empire strikes back?

156

(2)

`Swinging London'

158

(4)

The 1970s: mainstream decline and the rise of independent cinema

162

(3)

British cinema and Thatcherism

165

(5)

The British film renaissance of the 1990s

170

(7)

Television

177

(27)

Lez Cooke

The impact of ITV on the BBC

178

(3)

The `Golden Age' of British television

181

(4)

British television in the 1970s: a mirror to society?

185

(5)

The 1980s: Channel 4, competition and deregulation

190

(7)

British television in the 1990s

197

(7)

British Art

204

(20)

David Masters

The avant-garde moves home: Paris to New York

204

(1)

`The situation in London now'

205

(1)

Abstraction -- a new realism?

206

(2)

...and the situation in St Ives

208

(1)

IG, TIT and pop

209

(1)

Later pop

210

(2)

Challenging modernism: artists with attitude

212

(3)

When concept replaced the unique art object

215

(2)

A crisis of modernity? The emergence of postmodernism and anti-modernism

217

(1)

`Nostalgia for the unattainable'

218

(1)

Some went mad...some ran away

219

(5)

Popular Music since the 1950s

224

(15)

Andrew Blake

Popular music before pop

224

(2)

Aspects of amateurism: folk roots and r 'n' b

226

(1)

Professionalism and pop

227

(1)

The 1960s and after

228

(2)

The ambivalence of broadcasting

230

(1)

Youth and music

231

(2)

The urban soundscape

233

(2)

Let's mix again

235

(4)

Technology 1956--99

239

(20)

John Morris

What is technology and where is it taking us?

239

(3)

The information explosion

242

(4)

Genetic engineering

246

(6)

Outcomes of the high tech. process

252

(3)

Final thoughts

255

(4)

Epilogue and Overture

259

(9)

Clive Bloom

The role of the university

262

(1)

Criticism at the end of the century

263

(1)

New and future approaches

264

(1)

British culture at the Millennium

265

(3)

Index

268

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Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume Three: 1956 - 1999

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