Editing Look Back in Anger (section)

==In popular culture==
''Look Back in Anger''{{'}}s turtleneck sweater, and wife ironing while wearing a slip, became symbols that both represented the Angry Young Men movement and which others satirised.<ref name="life19580526">{{Cite magazine |date=1958-05-26 |title=Why Britain's Angry Young Men Boil Over |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vVMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA138 |magazine=Life |page=138 |access-date=2023-05-13}}</ref>

=== Media ===
* An episode of the BBC radio comedy series ''[[Hancock's Half Hour]]'' paid tribute to Osborne's play in "The East Cheam Drama Festival" (1958). The episode features the regular cast spoofing a number of theatrical [[genre]]s, with ''Look Back in Anger'' recast as "Look Back in Hunger—a new play by the Hungry Young Man, Mr.&nbsp;John Eastbourne". Scriptwriters [[Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)|Alan Simpson]] and [[Ray Galton]] mimic several elements of Osborne's play, from Jimmy's railing against the iniquities of modern life to the values of middle-class bourgeois life. The episode "Sunday Afternoon at Home" (1958) begins with a striking similarity to the opening of Osborne's play, with Hancock and [[Sid James]] sitting reading the papers and complaining there's nothing to do.
* ''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]'' (season 4, episode 2) parodied the play and its genre with "Look Back in a Bloody Rage" as an entrant in a British film festival focused on angry young men.
* "[[Ed Wood]]: Look Back in Angora", a 1994 documentary about Ed Wood, a [[B-movie]] director, released by [[Rhino Home Video]]. The [[cross-dressing]] Wood often wore an [[angora wool|angora]] sweater and angora fabric is featured in many of his films.
* In ''[[Studio&nbsp;60 on the Sunset Strip]]'', an American television series by [[Aaron Sorkin]], the character Andy Mackinaw translates ''Look Back in Anger'' into Dutch.
* "Look Back in Annoyance" is the title of a retrospective episode of ''[[Daria]]'', an animated television series.
* Jimmy Shive-Overly, one of the leads in the FX series ''[[You're the Worst]]'', is named after Jimmy.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=1218321299623137280|user=stephenfalk|title=@MacabreMacabre1 Yes!|date=17 January 2020}}</ref>

=== Music ===
* Jimmy Porter appears as the protagonist - older, increasingly feeble, but still angry - in [[The Albion Band]]'s "Ash on an Old Man's Sleeve," from their 1989 album ''Give Me a Saddle I'll Trade You a Car''.<ref>Liner notes, said album: "That great anti-hero Jimmy Porter is alive and drawing his pension in Ash On An Old Man's Sleeve.  Acknowledgements are due to...John Osbourne who, of course, wrote ''Look Back in Anger'', which propelled Jimmy into legend."</ref>
* "Look Back in Anger" is a song by British singer [[David Bowie]] from his 1979 album ''[[Lodger (album)|Lodger]]'', but there is no connection to the play, only a shared title.
* "Look Back in Anger" is a song by British rock group [[Television Personalities]] from their first album ''[[...And Don't the Kids Just Love It]]'' (1981).
* "[[Don't Look Back in Anger]]" is a song by British rock group [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] from their album [[(What's the Story) Morning Glory?]].