1st Edition

The Arts in the 1970s Cultural Closure

By Bart Moore-Gilbert Copyright 1994
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

324 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,... Read more
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.