The British Working Class in the Twentieth Century - Film, Literature and Television

Klappentext "The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, "and "Brassed Off" are among recent iconic working-class British films that have found huge worldwide success. Challenging suggestions that class is no longer relevant for literary or cultural analysis, this volume examines the lives and experiences of the working-class people portrayed in these films and in works of contemporary writing from authors like Jeanette Winterson and Pat Parker in order to assess how working-class lives have changed over the past century--and how these changes have been depicted and explored in a range of fictional and non-fictional texts and films. Zusammenfassung An examination of representations of the British working class in 20th-century literature and film. John Kirk reasserts the importance of class as a category of critical analysis through a wide-ranging discussion of the changing nature, status and ideological concerns of working-class writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Some Theoretical Perspectives I Contrary Voices: Images of the British Working Class from the 1930s and 1950s II Class, Community and 'Structures of Feeling' III Figuring the Dispossessed: Images of the Urban Working Class in the Writing of James Kelman IV Recovered Perspectives: Feminism and the Working Class V Recent Northern Realism: Return of the Repressed VI Black/Asian British Writing and Articulations of Class

Product details

• Authors: John Kirk, Kirk John
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780708321904
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-2190-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Film, British, Literature, Television, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, English, Class, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Films, cinema, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Working, Twentieth