1st Edition
Male Icons and Identity in 1960s Britain Revolt into Style
1. Introduction: Revolt into Style
Caroline Langhorst and Robert Shail
2. The War in Ambrosia: Billy Liar (1963) and Angry Young Men Between the New Wave and Swinging London
Melissa Oliver-Powell
3. ‘If Long Hair is Fashion and Beads are Au Courant…’; The Peacock Revolution and the Politics of Male Dress in the 1960s
Richard Hudson-Miles
4. Leading the Sixties: the Masculinities of Party-Political Leadership in 1960s Britain
Matthew Bailey and Melanie Williams
5. Bowler Hat, Umbrella and Scotch?: Patrick Macnee, Cultural Hybridity and the Transatlantic 1960s
Caroline Langhorst
6. Peter Wyngarde: The Man Who Would be King, Jason King
Steven Gerrard
7. On His Own Terms: Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American Defiance and 1960s Britain
Caroline Langhorst
8. Shifting ‘Macca-sculinity’: The Paul McCartney Persona throughout the 1960s
Matthew Melia
9. Sittin’ on a Fence: Mick Jagger, Sexual Fluidity and Performative Androgyny
Stephen Gaunson
10. Ordinariness Sixties Style: Michael Caine and The IPCRESS File
Andrew Spicer
11. Alan Bates in the 1960s: The Reluctant Hero
Robert Shail
12. ‘Oh, what a Son of a Bitch I Am’: Anthony Newley – Performance, Personae, Pop-Surrealism, Purgatory and the Strange World of Heironymus Merkin
Philip Todd
13. Peter le fou: Peter Whitehead and the Assassination of Swinging London
Robert Chilcott
14. England’s Two Bobbys. Picturing Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore, the Perfect Gentleman and the Consummate Professional
Joyce Woolridge
15. The New Wave in British Art: Blake, Hamilton and Hockney
Robert Shail
Biography
Caroline Langhorst is a film and cultural historian/independent scholar and creative practitioner. She has a PhD from De Montfort University on rebellious actors, performance styles and nonconformist stardom in 1960s British cinema, and has published on performed masculinities, the long, transatlantic 1960s and the counterculture as well as actor/director collaborations.
Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He is widely published on postwar British cinema including its directors and stars, and on the representation of masculinity. His most recent work has focused on children’s culture including films, television and games.
