Introduction : locating key texts amid the distinctive landscape of the sixties / Arthur Marwick -- A walk on the Wilder side : The apartment as social commentary / Daniel J. Leab -- Defining the parameters of "quality" cinema for "the permissive society" : the British Board of Film Censors and This sporting life / Anthony Aldgate -- The avengers : television and popular culture during the "high sixties" / James Chapman -- Seven days in May : history, prophecy and propaganda / Michael Coyne -- "Nothing like any previous musical, British or American" : the Beatles' film, A hard day's night / Rowana Agajanian -- Three Alison Lurie novels of the long sixties / The brilliant career of Sgt. Pepper / Allan F. Moore -- Panorama in the sixties / Robert Rowland -- Conclusion / Arthur Marwick