Both Amis' novel and their own films, following the excellent reaction to their satirical look at army life in Private's Progress (1956), could be seen, if not wholly accurately, as a part of this breakthrough. By the time the Boulting Brothers came to film Lucky Jim, however, the 'new wave' in British culture had made an indelible impression. Its hero, Jim Dixon, predates such 'angry young men' as Jimmy Porter ( Look Back in Anger, first performed 1956) and Joe Lampton ( Room at the Top, published 1957). Kingsley Amis' best-selling novel Lucky Jim, about a junior history professor at a redbrick university, was first published in 1954. But then he is invited to a weekend party by the head of his department. The exploits of Jim Dixon, a 24-year-old history lecturer who is worried that his unconventional methods might threaten his career.
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