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Cynicism in British post-war culture : ignorance, dust and disease / Kieran Curran, University of Edinburgh, UK.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137444356
  • 9781349495641
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DA556 .C965 2014
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Contents:
2. Work Is A Curse : John Wain/Kingsley Amis/Iris Murdoch -- 3. Just Another Sunday Evening : John Osborne/Jazz -- 4. That's What I'm Not: British New Wave Cinema -- 5. I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous : TV Satire/Comedy -- 6. Bed Peace : John Lennon -- 7. Quiet Riot : Stephen Poliakoff -- 8. No Future/No Alternative : Punk and The Cynic Sensibility -- 9. Before The Moon Falls : The Fall -- 10. Somehow That Really Impressed Me : The Smiths -- Conclusion.
Subject: Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility. Transcending barriers between high and low culture, Curran maps cynicism from 1950 (the end of post-war austerity) to 1987 (the year of the break-up of the Smiths), spanning a number of significant historical moments in the process: decolonisation and the erosion of the British Empire; the expansion of higher education (particularly in the wake of the Robbins Report of 1963); the radical comprehensivisation of secondary education; the dismantling of railways with a parallel valorisation of car culture; and the neo-colonial excursion of the Falklands War.
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Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility. Transcending barriers between high and low culture, Curran maps cynicism from 1950 (the end of post-war austerity) to 1987 (the year of the break-up of the Smiths), spanning a number of significant historical moments in the process: decolonisation and the erosion of the British Empire; the expansion of higher education (particularly in the wake of the Robbins Report of 1963); the radical comprehensivisation of secondary education; the dismantling of railways with a parallel valorisation of car culture; and the neo-colonial excursion of the Falklands War.

1. Annus Mirabilis : Philip Larkin -- 2. Work Is A Curse : John Wain/Kingsley Amis/Iris Murdoch -- 3. Just Another Sunday Evening : John Osborne/Jazz -- 4. That's What I'm Not: British New Wave Cinema -- 5. I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous : TV Satire/Comedy -- 6. Bed Peace : John Lennon -- 7. Quiet Riot : Stephen Poliakoff -- 8. No Future/No Alternative : Punk and The Cynic Sensibility -- 9. Before The Moon Falls : The Fall -- 10. Somehow That Really Impressed Me : The Smiths -- Conclusion.

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