Reframing the Long 1960s on British Screens : Masculinity, Crime and Nostalgia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tincknell, Estella.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2026.

Summary:

Estella Tincknell explores representations of gender, violence, race and desire in British crime films and television series made during or about "the long 1960s," contending that our understanding of this period is marked primarily by tensions between nostalgic myths of masculinity, power and whiteness and modern interpretations that challenge those dominant narratives.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The 'long 1960s' as historical framing

Masculinity as a discursive regime

Genre, convergences, ubiquity

Periodizing crime

Pleasure, aesthetics and form

The conjunctural text: theorizing crime narratives

Themes and organization

Part I: 'The long 1960s', crime narratives, masculinity, modernity and myth

Chapter 1: Social cohesion, modernity and patriarchal authority in Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars and Special Branch

Introduction: politics, culture and representing crime in the 1960s

Patriarchal authority and the BBC's public service police story: Dixon of Dock Green

Masculine certitude, feminine transgressions

A New Wave of realism? Z-Cars, criminality, class and masculinity

Contested spaces and the gendering of crime

Troublesome women, reasonable men

The ITV police thriller: action, thrills and women who know too much

Conclusion

Chapter 2: A Jigsaw puzzle Frenzy: Compulsive heterosexuality, masculinity and sex crime

Compulsory/compulsive heterosexuality and the problem of marriage

Crime town: Brighton's seedy underbelly of vice

'He's done something terrible, hasn't he?' Masculine frustrations, class and crime

'Most women of your age have had too many affairs': Negotiating heteronormative desire

The Frenzy of misogyny

'Lovely, lovely': Uncontrolled appetites: compulsive masculinity and desire in Frenzy

Chapter 3: Whiteness, masculinity and the law: The Sweeney's legacies

The hard man and the villain

It's always personal: Regan's mission of revenge

'I could be arrested for doing what you're thinking!' The Sweeney's double standards

Men and motors

Chapter 4: Honest outlaws: Modernity, violence and masculinity in the 'long 1960s'.

Myth and modernity: the Hollywood gangster

Class, authenticity and the 'honest outlaw': the British gangster myth

Corrupted masculinity: Spivs, racketeers and delinquents

A sixties reimagining: Jack-the-lad cockneys and constructed certitude

Camp, performance and homosexuality

The modernist anti-hero: Get Carter

A brutal(ist) mise-en-scene

Part II: Fantasy, nostalgia and styling 'the long 1960s'

Chapter 5: Annus mirabilis 1963 - robbers, showgirls and scandals: Reimagining Profumo and the Great Train Robbery

Introduction: 1963 and 'the sixties'

'Wrong but Romantic': the myth of the Great Train Robbers (with apologies to Sellars and Yeatman)

The wife's tale: Mrs Biggs

Cops versus robbers: The Great Train Robbery

Robbery without violence: the nostalgic heist film - The Duke

Showgirls, scandal and satire: the Profumo Affair

'I'm yours, Stephen, I'm what you made me': Scandal's Pygmalion fantasy

The establishment on trial: The Trial of Christine Keeler

Chapter 6: Not so Gentle Endeavours: 1960s nostalgia and modernized masculinity in the British period cop show

Endeavour: the prequel as nostalgia

Metatextual modernities

Elegy for a lost father

She's got herself murdered - again (and again)

It's all a conspiracy

Gently does It

Refrigerated women and fragile masculinity

Chapter 7: Legends for lads: The nostalgic gangster film, Thatcherism and the authenticity of Whiteness

'Diabolical liberties': The Long Good Friday and nostalgia for White masculinity

Revenant: The Krays myth returns

The Mod gangster: Brighton Rock, Last Night in Soho

Family firms: British television gangsters

Chapter 8: Annus mirabilis 1973 - Life on Mars, Prime Suspect 1973 and the myth of 'the seventies'

Life on Mars: the seventies redux.

Prime Suspect 1973: the anti-nostalgia text

Pathologies and pleasures

Works cited/References

Filmography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-9787-6939-3

979-82-16-25804-9

9781978769397

OCLC:

1577546523