Male Icons and Identity in 1960s Britain

Caroline Langhorst is a film and cultural historian/independent scholar and creative practitioner. She has a PhD from De Montfort University on rebellious actors, performance styles and nonconformist stardom in 1960s British cinema, and has published on performed masculinities, the long, transatlantic 1960s and the counterculture as well as actor/director collaborations.Robert Shail is Professor of Film and Director of Research in Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. He is widely published on postwar British cinema including its directors and stars, and on the representation of masculinity. His most recent work has focused on children’s culture including films, television and games.

• 1. Introduction - Caroline Langhorst and Robert Shail 2. The War in Ambrosia: Billy Liar (1963) and Angry Young Men Between the New Wave and Swinging London Films - Melissa Oliver-Powell 3. ‘If Long Hair is Fashion and Beads are Au Courant…’; The Peacock Revolution and the Politics of Male Dress in the 1960s - Richard Hudson-Miles 4. Leading the Sixties: the Masculinities of Party-Political Leadership in Britain - Melanie Williams and Matthew Bailey 5. Bowler Hat, Umbrella and Scotch?: Patrick Macnee, Cultural Hybridity and the Transatlantic 1960s - Caroline Langhorst 6. Peter Wyngarde: The Man Who Would be King, Jason King - Steven Gerrard 7. On His Own Terms: Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American Defiance and 1960s Britain - Caroline Langhorst 8. Shifting ‘Macca-sculinity’: The Paul McCartney Persona throughout the 1960s - Matt Melia 9. Sittin’ on a Fence: Mick Jagger, Sexual Fluidity and Performative Androgyny - Stephen Gaunson 10. Ordinariness Sixties Style: Michael Caine and The IPCRESS File - Andrew Spicer 11. Alan Bates in the 1960s: The Reluctant Hero - Robert Shail 12. ‘Oh, what a Son of a Bitch I Am’: Anthony Newley; Performance, Personae, Pop-Surrealism, Purgatory and the Strange World of Heironymus Merkin - Philip Todd 13. Peter le fou: Peter Whitehead and the Assassination of Swinging London - Robert Chilcott 14. England’s Two Bobbys. Picturing Bobby Charlton and Bobby Moore: The Perfect Gentleman and the Consummate Professional - Joyce Woolridge 15. The New Wave in British Art: Blake, Hamilton and Hockney - Robert Shail