British low culture : from safari suits to sexploitation / Leon Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Leon, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.

Great Britain.

Manners and customs.

Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Summary:

Flares, lava lamps, safari suits and a national cinema dominated by smutty comedy and cheap softcore have all made 1970s British popular culture appear too gruesome to recycle as nostalgia and too offensive for academic study. But the generic artifacts of the 1970s have become important reference points in contemporary popular culture. "British Low Culture" revisits the 1970s through some of its least respectable films and television programs, from Benny Hill to "Confessions of a Windowcleaner." Identifying the trickle down of permissiveness into mass consumption as a key feature of the 1970s, Leon Hunt considers the values of an ostensibly "bad" decade and analyzes its implications for issues of taste and cultural capital. Offering insights into the complexities of popular culture and popular memory, "British Low Culture" fills an important gap in the study of British cultural history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index.

ISBN:

0415151821

041515183X

OCLC:

37513165