During the TV show we see lots of relations to the war. One of the first times we see social context influencing the TV show is when we see the fighter jets hanging from the ceiling in the pub they stay in when they visit the town. These Jets are obviously from the war as we see marks on them that we would have seen on jets during the war. Another time we see The Avengers being influenced by social context is when we see many of the civilians living in the dubious town holding guns. This town is in Britain and we know guns are very difficult to get a hold of in England but during the war it would have been much easier. We also see soldiers boots in the school which shows many soldiers had been in this town during the second world war. These boots would not have been in this TV show if it were not for the war.
This TV show happened just after the war so we could see lots of objects that are in the TV so because of the social context at the time.
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ReplyDelete1. You draw attention correctly to the national social anxieties caused by the recent war 'the enemy within' and the sinister conspiracies.
2. You should notice that Emma Peel is represented as an intelligent career woman on equal terms with Steed.
3. You could have explained other issues: ethnic inequalities; assumption of heterosexuality; 60's generation gap between Peel and Steed; contested social values between 'swinging London and duty to Queen and country