Let’s Spend the Night Together
This talk explores how, for most people, the sexual revolution of the sixties was experienced vicariously through the films they watched.
It was an era when films such as: ‘Sapphire’ (1959), ‘Victim’ (1961), ‘A Taste of Honey’ (1961), ‘Goldfinger’ (1961), ‘Darling’ (1965), ‘Alfie’ (1966), ‘Poor Cow’ (1967), ‘Carry on Camping’ (1969) and ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ (1971) explored: sexuality, abortion, prostitution, promiscuity and the limitations of marriage and fidelity.
By the end of the decade, abortion and homosexuality had been decriminalised, divorce made easier and the pill was widely available. Indeed, the historian Elizabeth Wilson has suggested, there was almost ‘a compulsion to be sexual’.
Changes which can be attributed to progressive campaigners and politicians, but this talk, by cultural historian and author Maggie Andrews, will suggest relied upon the debates and discussions about such topics portrayed on screen.
100m inc Q&A
Tickets £7.50
in the Auditorium