Left and Write: Recalling the 30s

Synopsis: Looks at how writers, poets and film-makers looked outwards from England to a wider European perspective in the 1930s. Julian Symons, Stephen Spender and Naomi Mitchison look back at how it felt to be a leftist writer at the time and recall the issues that mattered to them. Four topics in particular are discussed: sex, including homosexuality and censorship; politics, for the 1930s were a time of political commitment; Spain, the way the Spanish Civil War became a focal point for many 1930s writers; and writing, where the three writers assess the political commitment of themselves and their contemporaries then from the viewpoint of the late 1980s.
Series: Literature in the Modern World, Course A319
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.
Year of production: 1991
Availability: out of distribution; 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Subjects: English language and literature
Keywords: Auden, W H; Blunt, Anthony; censorship; homosexuality; Isherwood, Christopher; Mosley, Oswald; novelists; Spanish Civil War; writers

Producer

Betty Talks

Cast

Benjamin Whitrow

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