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British Low Culture - From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (Paperback, New)
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British Low Culture - From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (Paperback, New)
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Flares, lava lamps and safari suits and a national cinema dominated
by smutty comedy and cheap softcore have all made 1970s popular
culture appear too gruesome to recycle as nostalgia and too
offensive for academic study. But the generic artefacts of the
seventies, such as sexploitation films, skinhead novels,
wife-swapping suburbia, football terraces, James Bond and creepy
country houses have become important reference points and are now
embraced by contemporary popular culture. The book revisits the
1970s through some of its least respectable texts: television
programmes such as Jason King and On the Buses; films such as
Suburban Wives, House of Whipcord and Confessions of a
Windowcleaner; and the prime-time titillation and pornification of
Britain by comedians such as Benny Hill. Identifying permissive
populism, 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 the implications of the 1970s
for issues of taste and cultural capital.
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