Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 'The decade that taste forgot'?: Revisiting the 1970s; 2 Permissive populism: Low cultural production in the 1970s; 3 From carnival to crumpet: Low comedy in the 1970s; 4 Lads and loungers: Some 1970s masculinities; 5 'Knuckle crazy': 'Youthsploitation' fiction; 6 Can you keep it up for a decade?: British sexploitation; 7 Coming clean ... From Robin Askwith to Mary Millington; 8 Grim flarey tales: British horror in the 1970s; Postscript: Academics behaving badly?; Notes; Select filmography
Summary
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 analyses the implications of the 1970s for issues of taste and cultural capital. Hunt explores how the British cultural landscape of the 1970s coincided with moral panics, the troubled Heath government, the three day week and the fragmentation of British society by nationalism, class conflict, race, gender and sexuality
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index
