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. Indeed, censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of the period, and John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, and John Schlesinger are just a few of the people who were forced to change their work.
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.
Anthony Aldgate is Senior Lecturer in History and Sub Dean in Arts at The Open University, Visiting Professor at the University of Luton, and Associate Tutor at Rewley House, Oxford. He is author of Cinema and History: British Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War (Scolar Press, London, 1979); Best of British: Cinema and Society, 1930-1970 (Blackwell, 1983; Barnes & Noble, Totowa, NJ, 1983); Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War (Blackwell, 1986), to be revised and expanded in 1994 by Edinburgh UP; The Common Touch: The Films of John Baxter (BFI, 1989); Between Two Wars (Open UP, 1990); World War II and Its Consequences (Open UP, 1990).
Show moreStage 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. Indeed, censorship altered the progression of the artistic and creative renaissance of the period, and John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, Alan Sillitoe, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson, and John Schlesinger are just a few of the people who were forced to change their work.
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.
Anthony Aldgate is Senior Lecturer in History and Sub Dean in Arts at The Open University, Visiting Professor at the University of Luton, and Associate Tutor at Rewley House, Oxford. He is author of Cinema and History: British Newsreels and the Spanish Civil War (Scolar Press, London, 1979); Best of British: Cinema and Society, 1930-1970 (Blackwell, 1983; Barnes & Noble, Totowa, NJ, 1983); Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the Second World War (Blackwell, 1986), to be revised and expanded in 1994 by Edinburgh UP; The Common Touch: The Films of John Baxter (BFI, 1989); Between Two Wars (Open UP, 1990); World War II and Its Consequences (Open UP, 1990).
Show moreAnthony Aldgate is Senior Lecturer in History and Sub Dean in Arts
at The Open University, Visiting Professor at the University of
Luton, and Associate Tutor at Rewley House, Oxford.
He is author of Cinema and History: British Newsreels and the
Spanish Civil War (Scolar Press, London, 1979); Best of British:
Cinema and Society, 1930-1970 (Blackwell, 1983; Barnes & Noble,
Totowa, NJ, 1983); Britain Can Take It: The British Cinema in the
Second World War (Blackwell, 1986), to be revised and expanded in
1994 by Edinburgh UP; The Common Touch: The Films of John Baxter
(BFI, 1989); Between Two Wars (Open UP, 1990); World
War II and Its Consequences (Open UP, 1990).
Making use of a range of recently released documentation from the
files of the British Board of Film Censors and the Lord
Chamberlain's office, Anthony Aldgate presents a brief but
fascinating picture of British puritanism at work in the decade
between 1955 and 1965, a decade which saw the beginnings of the
permissive society in Britain. Dr Aldate tells the story very well
...
'fascinating survey ... There are some hilarious quotes from the
Lord Chamberlain's office.'
Sunday Telegraph
`a fine account of how UK cinema and theatre fought the blue
pencil, 1955-65'
New Statesman & Society
Aldgate has done his research well...and the book records very well
this frustrating and exciting decade. ...as a portrait of the
so-called 'permissive' society, it offers some interesting and
thought-provoking insights.
`Aldgate deftly charts the Establishment's reactions to the first
rumblings of the post-war cultural revolution in the late fifties
and early sixties'
History Today
`...a detailed account of a transitional period in the history of
British Cinema and Theatre censorship...this book provides a
fascinating insight into the process of censorship and the changes
in British society which were reflected in the censor's
decisions...will give perspective to anyone interested in current
censorship issues.'
Film Magazine
`Anthony Aldgate deftly charts the Establishment's reactions to the
first rumblings of the post-war cultural revolution in the late
fifties and early sixties.'
History Today
`fascinating new book ... This is a careful, thoughtful,
meticulously documented exploration of what Aldgate calls "the
slow, complex and fraught problem of liberalization."'
Jeffrey Richards, University of Lancaster, Albion, Winter '95
`a brief but fascianting picture of British puritanism at work in
the decade between 1955 and 1965 ... Dr Aldgate tells the story
very well.'
Frank Field, University of Keele,
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