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Delve Deeper into “49 Up” A film by Michael Apted This multi-media resource list, and Kathy looks back at their time compiled by Rebecca Federman Offer, Daniel. Regular Guys: 34 together and reflects on their of the New York Public Library Years Beyond Adolescence. New shared past. in partnership with the York: Kluwer Academic, 2004. American Library Association, A longitudinal study focusing on Messud, Claire. The Emperor's provides a range of perspectives middle-aged men and their Children. New York: Knopf, on the issues raised by the childhoods. 2006. Three friends from Brown upcoming P.O.V. documentary face life at thirty. “49 Up” that premieres on Singer, Bennett. 42 Up: "Give October 9, 2007 at 9 PM (check Me the Child Until He Is Seven, Swann, Maxine. Serious girls. local listings at and I Will Show You the Man". New York: Picador, 2004.Two www.pbs.org/pov/). New York, NY: New Press, 1998. girls meet at boarding school, Transcripts from many of the develop a deep friendship and work "49 Up" is the seventh film in a episodes and interviews with the through troubled relationships. series of landmark documentaries show's participants. that began 42 years ago when UK- __________________________________ based Granada's World in Action Turkel, Studs. Working: People NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER team, inspired by the Jesuit maxim Talk About What They Do All READERS "Give me the child until he is seven Day and How They Feel About and I will give you the man," What They Do. New York: Ancona, George. And What Do interviewed a diverse group of Pantheon Books, 1974. Terkel You Do? A Book About People seven-year-old children from all interviewed more than 100 people and Their Work. New York: over England, asking them about to explore the motivation to work Dutton, 1976. A look at twenty- their lives and their dreams for the and how people feel about their one people who have careers that future. Michael Apted, a researcher jobs and working in general. don’t require a college degree. for the original film, has returned to interview the "children" every seven Wadsworth, Michael E. J. The Dahl, Roald. Boy. New York: years since, at ages 14, 21, 28, 35, Imprint of Time: Childhood, HarperCollins, 2000. Dahl's 42 and now again at age 49. History, and Adult Life. New memories of his childhood, York: Oxford University Press, including his time spent in boarding In this latest chapter, more life- 1991. Looks at a large number of school. changing decisions are revealed, children born in 1946 and follows more shocking announcements their progress, growth and their Farjeaon, Eleanor. Portrait of a made and more of the original movement into the Baby Boomer Family. New York: Frederick A. group take part than ever before, generation. Stokes. 1936. A look inside the speaking out on a variety of creative and imaginative world of subjects including love, marriage, Wakeford, John. The Cloistered the Farjeaon family. career, class and prejudice. Elite: A Sociological Analysis of ________________________ the English Public Boarding MacKinnon, Debbie. What am I? ADULT NONFICTION School. New York: Praeger, 1969. Wakeford takes a sample of New York: Dial Books for Young 100 boy's public boarding schools Readers, 1996. Photographs of Pugh, Gillian, ed. Thirty Years of and questions whether or not the boys and girls acting out a series of Change for Children. London: schools could be considered socially occupations. National Children's Bureau. disruptive and harmful to the 1993. A look at child care issues in students. __________________________________ England over the past 30 years. FICTION FOR YOUNGER ____________________________ READERS Ames, Louise Bates. Your ADULT FICTION Seven-year-old: Life in a Minor Key. New York: Dell, 1995. What Amis, Kingsley. Memoirs. Almond, David. The Fire-Eaters. goes on in the heads of many London: Hutchinson, 1991. New York: Delacorte Press, seven-year olds and how, as a Amis looks back on his family, 2003. It's 1962 England and Bobby parent, to deal with them. school life, Oxford and career. and his friends find fun and meaning in life, despite threats of Blackwell, Trevor. Talking Work: Amis, Martin. The Rachel nuclear war and mean teachers. An Oral History. London: Faber Papers. New York: Knopf, 1974. & Faber, 1996. Interviews with all In Amis-the-younger's first book, Hughes, Thomas. Tom Brown's varieties of workers - and the Charles Highway is living with his School-Days. New York: Harper, unemployed - to come to some sister and studying hard for both 1911. One boy's life at the Rugby conclusions about the work force Oxford and a girl named Rachel. School in England. and the working class in England. Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Koponen, Libby. Blow Out the Lay, Samantha. British Social Go. New York: Knopf, 2005. Moon. New York: Little Brown, Realism: From Documentary to As children Kathy, Ruth, and 2004. A young woman (a Brit-Grit . London: Wallflower, Tommy were students at Hailsham, fictionalized author) moves from the 2002. A history of the British social an exclusive boarding school United States to attend a boarding realism movement from its roots in secluded in the English countryside. school in London. documentary film, to its more Years later, the friends are reunited recent stylized material. Delve Deeper into “49 Up” A film by Michael Apted Willis, Jeanne. The Truth or school and quickly rises to the top Something. New York: H. Holt of the track team. and Co., 2002. Mick longs to be www.amazon.com part of a loving family, but he’s poor and being shuffled from home “Married in America 2.” A film to home in post WWII England. by Michael Apted, New Video Group, 2007. In the original film, __________________________________ “Married in America,” Michael Apted FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES interviewed nine engaged couples. Five years later, he revisits them to "7 up in South Africa." A film by find out how their relationships Angus Gibson. Granada have progressed. Television Production, 1991. (83 www.amazon.com min). Children of different ethnicities describe their life at age The entire “Up” series is 7 in South Africa. available at Amazon.com. www.amazon.com "Diaries." A film by Ed Pincus. Center for Public Cinema, 1982. (200 min). Pincus films his life and family from 1971 to 1976. “Diner.” A film by Barry Levinson, MGM, 1982. (110 min). A group of college-age friends struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore. www.amazon.com "Following Sean." A film by Ralph Arlyck. Timed Exposures, 2005. (87 min). Thirty years after his film Sean, Arlyck returns to find out what happened to Sean and his family. www.amazon.com "The History Boys." A film by Nicholas Hytner. Free Range Films, 2006. (109 min). Intellectually gifted boys are prepped for Oxbridge. Based on Alan Bennett's TONY-winning play. www.amazon.com "This Happy Breed." A film by David Lean. Universal Pictures, 1944. (105 min). How an ordinary English family lived between the World Wars, a la Noel Coward. www.amazon.com "If…." A film by Lindsay Anderson. Paramount Pictures, 1968. (111 min). A group of disaffected young men rebel against an authoritarian establishment and their fellow students at British public school. www.amazon.com "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner." A film by Tony Richardson. Woodfall Film Productions, 1962. (104 min). Colin Smith is at a boy's reform .