1st Edition
Media and Class TV, Film, and Digital Culture
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.
- Introduction: studying media and class
- The Media’s Failure to Represent the Working Class: Explanations from Media Production and Beyond
- Class and Gender through Seven Decades of American Television Sitcoms
- Television Screening: The Entertainment Value of Poverty and Wealth
- Sex, Class and Trash: Money, Status and Classed ‘Dreams" in Classical Hollywood Cinema
- Performing Class and Taste through the Documentary Lens
- How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity
- The Working Class, Ordinary Celebrity and Illegitimate Cultural Work
- Idols of self-production: Selfies, career success and social class
- Rich TV, Poor TV: Work, leisure and the construction of ‘deserved inequality’ in contemporary Britain
- When Left Theory "leaves behind the dream of a Revolution": Class and the Software Economy
- Class in "The Class": Conservative, Competitive and (Dis)connected
- For Themselves and for their Communities: Alternative Mediations of Digital Natives
- Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection
June Deery and Andrea Press
CLASS REPRESENTATION AS ENTERTAINMENT
David Hesmondhalgh
Richard Butsch
June Deery
Andrea Press and Marjorie Rosen
DOCUMENTING CLASS
John Corner
Laurie Ouellette
MEDIA LEISURE/ LABOR
Helen Wood, Jilly Boyce Kay and Mark Banks
Anita Biressi
Jo Littler and Milly Williamson
DIGITAL CULTURES
Robert Wllkie
Sonia Livingstone and Julian Sefton-Green
Vicki Mayer and Aline Maia
Jen Schradie
Biography
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.