1st Edition

The Arts in the 1970s Cultural Closure

By Bart Moore-Gilbert Copyright 1994
    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    322 Pages
    by Routledge

    Were the 1970s really `the devils decade'? Images of strikes, galloping inflation, rising unemployment and bitter social divisions evoke a period of unparalleled economic decline, political confrontation and social fragmentation. But how significant were the pessimism and self-doubt of the 1970s, and what was the legacy of its cultural conflicts?
    Covering the entire spectrum of the arts - drama, television, film, poetry, the novel, popular music, dance, cinema and the visual arts - The Arts in the 1970s challenges received perceptions of the decade as one of cultural decline. The collection breaks new ground in providing the first detailed analysis of the cultural production of the decade as a whole, providing an invaluable resource for all those involved in cultural, media and communications studies.

    Contributors: Bart Moore-Gilbert, Stuart Laing, Antony Easthope, Willy Maley, Elaine Aston, Robert Sheppard, Gary Whannel, Jude Mackrell, Andrew Higson, Dave Harker, Stuart Sillars, Martin Priestman.

    Biography

    The editor, Bart Moore-Gilbert, is Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths’ College and co-editor of Cultural Revolution? The Challenge of the Arts in the 1960s.