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Author Abramson, Leslie H

Title Mary Poppins Radical Elevation in The 1960s
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (143 p.)
Series Cinema and Youth Cultures Ser
Cinema and Youth Cultures Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editors' Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Step in Time: Poppins and the 1960s -- Chapter 2 Mary's Generation: P.L. Travers, Unorthodoxy, and the Character of Modernity -- Chapter 3 Disney's Investment -- Chapter 4 Mary Poppins Part I: Summoned: Poppins and the Imperatives of Youth -- Chapter 5 Mary Poppins Part II: Altered States -- Chapter 6 Reception: Changes in the Wind -- Coda: Poppins Redux -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Nineteen sixties.
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Musical films -- United States -- History and criticism
Musical films
Nineteen sixties
Popular culture
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780429997396
0429997396