Media and Class (eBook, PDF)

TV, Film, and Digital Culture
Redaktion: Deery, June; Press, Andrea

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315387970
• Artikelnr.: 49990530

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Studying Media and Class


June Deery and Andrea Press

CLASS REPRESENTATION AS ENTERTAINMENT


2. The Media's Failure to Represent the Working Class: Explanations from Media Production and Beyond


David Hesmondhalgh


3. Class and Gender through Seven Decades of American Television Sitcoms


Richard Butsch


4. TV Screening: The Entertainment Value of Poverty and Wealth


June Deery


5. Sex, Class, and Trash: Money, Status and Classed "Dreams" in Classical Hollywood Cinema


Andrea Press and Marjorie Rosen

DOCUMENTING CLASS


6. Performing Class and Taste through the Documentary Lens


John Corner


7. How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity


Laurie Ouellette

MEDIA LEISURE/ LABOR


8. The Working Class, Ordinary Celebrity, and Illegitimate Cultural Work


Helen Wood, Jilly Boyce Kay and Mark Banks


9. Idols of Self-Production: Selfies, Career Success and Social Class


Anita Biressi


10. Rich TV, Poor TV: Work, leisure and the construction of 'deserved inequality' in contemporary Britain


Jo Littler and Milly Williamson

DIGITAL CULTURES


11. When Left Theory "leaves behind the dream of a Revolution": Class and the Software Economy


Robert Wilkie


12. Class in "The Class": Conservative, Competitive, and (Dis)connected


Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green


13. For Themselves and for Their Communities: Alternative Mediations of Digital Natives


Vicki Mayer and Aline Maia


14. Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection

Jen Schradie