144 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
144 Pages
17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume examines Mary Poppins as a 1960s film reflecting and invested in its radically changing times, a largely but not unmitigatedly antiestablishment musical resonant with conditions and issues powerfully affecting baby boomers.
Among the explosion of baby boomer films that rocked the 1960s, the most stirring early work was likely Mary Poppins . This 1964 film captivated young... Read more
1. Step in Time: Poppins and the 1960s 2. Mary’s Generation: P.L. Travers, Unorthodoxy, and the Character of Modernity 3. Disney’s Investment 4 Mary Poppins Part I Summoned: Poppins and the Imperatives of Youth 5. Mary Poppins Part II Altered States 6 Reception: Changes in the Wind Coda Poppins Redux
Biography
Leslie H. Abramson is a Visiting Scholar at the American Bar Foundation. Abramson, a film scholar, is the author of Hitchcock and the Anxiety of Authorship as well as book chapters and journal essays on cinema in the 1960s, law and film, and Hitchcock. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Illinois.
