Media and class : TV, film, and digital culture

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Media and class : TV, film, and digital culture

edited by June Deery and Andrea Press

Routledge, 2017

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  • : pbk

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Size of pbk. ed.: 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Although the idea of class is again becoming politically and culturally charged, the relationship between media and class remains understudied. This diverse collection draws together prominent and emerging media scholars to offer readers a much-needed orientation within the wider categories of media, class, and politics in Britain, America, and beyond. Case studies address media representations and media participation in a variety of platforms, with attention to contemporary culture: from celetoids to selfies, Downton Abbey to Duck Dynasty, and royals to reality TV. These scholarly but accessible accounts draw on both theory and empirical research to demonstrate how different media navigate and negotiate, caricature and essentialize, or contain and regulate class.

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Introduction: Studying Media and Class June Deery and Andrea Press CLASS REPRESENTATION AS ENTERTAINMENT The Media's Failure to Represent the Working Class: Explanations from Media Production and Beyond David Hesmondhalgh Class and Gender through Seven Decades of American Television Sitcoms Richard Butsch TV Screening: The Entertainment Value of Poverty and Wealth June Deery Sex, Class, and Trash: Money, Status and Classed "Dreams" in Classical Hollywood Cinema Andrea Press and Marjorie Rosen DOCUMENTING CLASS Performing Class and Taste through the Documentary Lens John Corner How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity Laurie Ouellette MEDIA LEISURE/ LABOR The Working Class, Ordinary Celebrity, and Illegitimate Cultural Work Helen Wood, Jilly Boyce Kay and Mark Banks Idols of Self-Production: Selfies, Career Success and Social Class Anita Biressi Rich TV, Poor TV: Work, leisure and the construction of 'deserved inequality' in contemporary Britain Jo Littler and Milly Williamson DIGITAL CULTURES When Left Theory "leaves behind the dream of a Revolution": Class and the Software Economy Robert Wilkie Class in "The Class": Conservative, Competitive, and (Dis)connected Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green For Themselves and for Their Communities: Alternative Mediations of Digital Natives Vicki Mayer and Aline Maia Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection Jen Schradie

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