Ban This Filth! Letters From the Mary Whitehouse Archive
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.09.2013
Verlag
Faber & FaberSeitenzahl
424
Maße (L/B/H)
19.8/12.6/2.7 cm
Gewicht
331 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-571-28151-0
In 1964, Mary Whitehouse launched a campaign to fight what she called the ´propaganda of disbelief, doubt and dirt´ being poured into homes through the nation´s radio and television sets. Whitehouse, senior mistress at a Shropshire secondary school, became the unlikely figurehead of a mass movement for censorship: the National Viewers´ and Listeners´ Association, now Mediawatch-uk.
For almost forty years, she kept up the fight against the programme makers, politicians, pop stars and playwrights who she felt were dragging British culture into a sewer of blasphemy and obscenity. From Doctor Who (´Teatime brutality for tots´) to Dennis Potter (whose mother sued her for libel and won) to the Beatles - whose Magical Mystery Tour escaped her intervention by the skin of its psychedelic teeth - the list of Mary Whitehouse´s targets will read to some like a nostalgic roll of honour.
Caricatured while she lived as a figure of middle-brow reaction, Mary Whitehouse was held in contempt by the country´s intellectual elite. But were some of the dangers she warned of more real than they imagined?
Ben Thompson´s selection of material from her extraordinary archive shows Mary Whitehouse´s legacy in a startling new light. From her exquisitely testy exchanges with successive BBC Directors General, to the anguished screeds penned by her television and radio vigilantes, these letters reveal a complex and combative individual, whose anxieties about culture and morality are often eerily relevant to the age of the internet.
´A fantastic read . . . I can´t recommend it highly enough.´ Lauren Laverne, BBC Radio 6 Music
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