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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.
Sommario
- Introduction: Studying Media and Class
June Deery and Andrea Press
CLASS REPRESENTATION AS ENTERTAINMENT
- The Mediäs 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
Info autore
June Deery is Professor of Media Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and author of
Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Palgrave, 2012) and
Reality TV (Polity, 2015). Her latest work looks at reality TV and the campaign and early administration of Donald Trump.
Andrea Press is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Media Studies and Sociology at the University of Virginia. She is the former Executive Editor of the Virginia Film Festival and Producer of the Roger Ebert Film Festival. She is the author or co-author of
The New Media Environment, Speaking of Abortion, Women Watching Television, and the forthcoming volumes
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism, Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, and
Feminist Reception Studies in a Post-Audience Age.
Riassunto
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.
