Media and Class

TV, Film, and Digital Culture
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-22978-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Deery, June

Press, Andrea

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.