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Mass Media and Social Change in Britain, 1882–2004

Film, television and social issues

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Recall questions on Cathy Come Home, television's treatment of race and sexuality, Mary Whitehouse and the NVALA, and how the BBC responded to her.

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Who and when

What did NVALA stand for?

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What social issues did 1960s television engage with?

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  1. 1

    What did NVALA stand for?

    Model answer

    The National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.

  2. 2

    What social issues did 1960s television engage with?

    Model answer

    Racism, sexism and homelessness, for example the drama Cathy Come Home (1966).

  3. 3

    What was Up the Junction?

    Model answer

    Ken Loach's 1965 BBC Wednesday Play about working-class life in Battersea, whose depiction of a backstreet abortion fed debate before the Abortion Act of 1967.

  4. 4

    How did television handle race?

    Model answer

    Ambiguously: Till Death Us Do Part satirised bigotry through Alf Garnett while The Black and White Minstrel Show ran in blackface until 1978.

  5. 5

    How did television treat sexuality?

    Model answer

    From near-total absence, through cautious drama in the 1970s, to EastEnders' first gay kiss on the lips in 1989 and Queer as Folk in 1999, each provoking complaint.

  6. 6

    Who was Mary Whitehouse?

    Model answer

    The Shropshire teacher who founded the Clean-Up TV campaign in 1964 and led the National Viewers and Listeners Association against permissiveness in broadcasting.

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