Television and Working Class Identity
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Product details:
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
- Date of Publication 18 December 2014
- ISBN 9780230102958
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 222x141 mm
- Weight 1 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book argues that as TV has evolved as a corporate-managed medium it has played an influential role in shaping our understandings of social class. It is designed to navigate the steady stream of narrow working-class representations from television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, soap operas, police dramas, etc
MoreLong description:
This book argues that as TV has evolved as a corporate-managed medium it has played an influential role in shaping our understandings of social class. The book is designed to navigate the steady stream of narrow working-class representations from television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, soap operas, police dramas, daytime talk shows, etc. This study breaks new ground not only in its focus on the working class, but also by exploring the ways in which race, gender, sexuality, ability, and age intersect with class, and how these diverse experiences are interpreted by network media that have largely ignored the influence of social and economic conditions on the lives of everyday people while constructing their own tales about how the world works.
MoreTable of Contents:
Foreword: Stanley Aronowitz
Laughing Matters: Entertainment Television's Mockery of the Working Class
Economy or First Class: Capitalism and the Class Divide
Classified: Media/Network Ownership and Their Attitudes towards Labor—
Why Representation Matters
Classic Images: The Great American Dream Machine & the Perpetuation of
the Myth of Meritocracy
Class Clowns: The "Dysfunctional" White, Working-Class Guy.
In a Class by Themselves: Cartoon Buffoons & Animated Idiots—Comic
Depictions of the Working Class
Women Have Class: Watching Working-Class Women on Entertainment TV
Cutting Class—From the Margins to the Middle: Images of Upward Mobility of Historically Marginalized Groups
Signifying without Classifying: The Elderly and the Disabled
No Class: Depictions of Cowboys, Country Pumpkins, Hillbillies, Hicks,
Rednecks, and White Trailer Trash
Time for Class: Racializing Crime and Criminalizing the Working
Class
Class Dismissed: Representations of Public Schooling as the Great
Equalizer
Class Consciousness and Reality TV: Let the Games Begin
Class Act: What We Can Really Do!
