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Monday 4th November 2024

Sixty years On: Life in Britain as seen in 1960s films
Colin Shindler
 

There are four elements to this lecture. The first is a look at the emergence of the North in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Room at the Top, A Taste of Honey, This Sporting Life etc.. Secondly we look at Swinging Britain – Julie Christie in Darling, Michael Caine in Alfie, the Beatles in A Hard Day’s Night and the James Bond movies. Thirdly we cover the last days of Empire as seen in Tony Richardson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, Zulu and, comically, Carry On Up the Khyber. Finally the drastic change in the depiction of sex from Dirk Bogarde in Victim (1961) to Alan Bates and Oliver Reed famously wrestling nude in Women in Love (1969).

Dr Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler has been lecturing on American and British social and cultural history for over 20 years. He was awarded his PhD at Cambridge University and subsequently lectured on Film for their history faculty. He also teaches a variety of adult education courses at Madingley and Higham Hall in Cumbria and has lectured on cruises. Colin has a distinguished career as a writer and producer in television, radio and film. He won a BAFTA award for his production of A Little Princess, and was nominated for a US Prime Time Emmy for his production of Young Charlie Chaplin. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film Buster and was the producer of various television dramas such as Lovejoy and Wish Me Luck. He has written three novels as well as numerous television scripts and radio plays but regards his greatest cultural contribution as choosing the title music for the police series Juliet Bravo.

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