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 PEPI LEISTYNA Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics Graduate Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA, where he coordinates the research program and teaches courses in cultural studies, media literacy, and language acquisition. INDICE: Foreword: 'S.Aronowitz - 'Introduction - 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 Labour - Why Representation Matters - Classic Images: The Great American Dream Machine & the Perpetuation of the Myth of Meritocracy - Class Clowns: The White, Male Worker as Disinterested and Dysfunctional - In a Class by Themselves: Cartoon Buffoons & Animated Idiots - Comic Depictions of theWorking 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 Hillbillies, Hicks, Rednecks, and White Trailer Trash - Class Dismissed: Racializing Crime and Criminalizing the Working Class - Inmates vs. Classmates: Representations of Public Schooling as the Great Equalizer - Classifiable or Certifiable: What's so Real about Reality TV? Neoliberalism, Competition, and Depictions of Working-Class Character - Class Act: What We Can Really Do!
- ISBN: 978-0-230-10295-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha Publicación: 16/08/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés