SIXTY YEARS ON - LIFE IN BRITAIN AS SEEN IN 1960 FILMS
Schedule
Thu Nov 20 2025 at 10:15 am to 12:15 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Albert Halls, Dumbarton Road, FK8 2QL Stirling, United Kingdom | Stirling, SC
SIXTY YEARS ON - LIFE IN BRITAIN AS SEEN IN 1960 FILMS Presented by COLIN SHINDLER, Lecturer on American and British social and cultural history . PhD and lecturer at Cambridge University. Writer and producer in television, radio and film.
There are four elements to this lecture. Firstly a look at the emergence of the North in Saturday Night . Secondly we look at Swinging Britain. Third is a look at the last days of Empire and finally the drastic change in the depiction of sex. Amongst the films that will be considered will be "Room at the Top", "Alfie", "A Hard Day’s Night", "James Bond, Charge of the Light Brigade" and "Women in Love", amongst other films.
This one is for all film buffs and lovers of the arts and culture of the 60s.
