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