Middlebury

INTD 1135

British Popular Culture

British Popular Culture
George Orwell once described the English in terms of their fondness for “the pub, the football match, the back garden, the fireside, and the ‘nice cup of tea'." But what would he have made of the Sex Pistols or Amy Winehouse? In this course we will trace a particular arc through post-1945 British popular culture in order to ask how we got from Orwell to The Office, from the Rolling Stones to Radiohead. We will ask how film, music, and TV prepared the ground for important episodes in British history: the “special relationship” with the United States, the modernization of sexuality, the transformation from welfare state to free market capitalism, the slow passage toward a multicultural society.
Subject:
Interdepartmental
Department:
Interdepartmental
Division:
Interdisciplinary
Requirements Fulfilled:
ART EUR SOC WTR
Equivalent Courses:
ENGL 1135
ENAM 1135

Sections

Winter 2020

INTD1135A-W20 Lecture (Graves)

Winter 2017

INTD1135A-W17 Lecture (Graves)

Winter 2015

INTD1135A-W15 Lecture (Graves)

Winter 2013

INTD1135A-W13 Lecture (Graves)