Culture of the United Kingdom
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"James!" "Is it a book that you would even wish your wife or your servants to read?" I should like to acknowledge two books which were of help to me, especially in matters of social history, M. J. Quinlan's regrettably forgotten Victorian Prelude (New York, 1941), and Norman St. John-Stevas' Obscenity and the Law (London, 1956). David Foxon's important and authoritative essays on the historical origins of pornography, "Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745."--The Other Victorians (1964) by Steven Marcus |
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The culture of the United Kingdom is rich and varied, and has been influential on culture on a worldwide scale.
It is a European state, and has many cultural links with its former colonies, particularly those that use the English language (the Anglosphere).
Popular culture of the United Kingdom has impacted upon the world in the form of the British invasion, Britpop and British television broadcasting. British literature and British poetry, particularly that of William Shakespeare, is revered across the world.
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British low culture
British low culture or British exploitation is exploitation culture from Great Britain.
1950s
Smut and innuendo in British culture
Smut and innuendo with sexual and scatological themes, typified by:
- Hank Janson and Reginald Heade are two examples of 1950s British exploitation culture well documented by Steve Holland
- the seaside postcards of Donald McGill
- the humour of Benny Hill, Julian Clary and many others
- the series of Carry On films
- The Two Ronnies, comedy show starring Ronnie Corbett and Ronnie Barker
- Alas Smith and Jones, sketch show starring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones
- Hale and Pace, sketch show starring Gareth Hale and Norman Pace
- the comic magazine Viz (though it has often used surreal humour, satire and black comedy as well)
- the Nudge Nudge sketch
- Bottom with much slapstick, but also heavy use of sexual innuendos.
- The Dangerous Brothers
- Bernard Manning, Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson and other bawdy comedians.
By sensibility
- British horror
- British humour
- British erotica
- British popular music
- Censorship in the United Kingdom
- Saucy seaside postcards by Donald McGill
- Penny dreadfuls
References
- Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema (2005) by Simon Sheridan
- British Low Culture: From Safari Suits to Sexploitation (1998) by Leon Hunt
Various
By era
By medium
- British architecture
- British art
- British avant-garde
- British counterculture
- British cinema
- British literature
- British philosophy
- British theatre
- British music
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