دانلود کتاب Media and Class: TV, Film, and Digital Culture

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Studying Media and Class
Popular Consciousness
Scholarship on Class
The Concept
Categorization
Class Relations
Class in Media Studies
Class Focus
Class Representation: Variables and Expectations
Media Influence
Chapter Overview
Notes
Works Cited
Part 1: Class Representation as Entertainment
Chapter 2: The Media’s Failure to Represent the Working Class: Explanations from Media Production and Beyond
Introduction: The Media’s Failure to Represent Working-Class People
Explaining Representational Failure 1: Organisational and Cultural Factors
Explaining Representational Failure 2: Systemic and Structural Influences on Production
How Sociologies of Class Might Enhance MPA’s Understanding of How Bad Class Representation Happens
What Can Be Done?
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 3: Class and Gender through Seven Decades of American Television Sitcoms
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 4: TV Screening: The Entertainment Value of Poverty and Wealth
Comedy
Screen Culture
Reality TV and the Working Class
Red, White, and Blue
Comdocs
Nouveau Riche Docusoaps
Melodrama
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Sex, Class, and Trash: Money, Status, and Classed “Dreams” in Classical Hollywood Cinema
Film Noir and Its Vampy, Knowing, Sexualized Heroines
Marilyn Monroe: Sex, Class, Trash, and the Otherwordly Qualities of an Innocent Screen Goddess
Hitchcock Blondes: Mulvey Missed the Class Act
Conclusion
Note
Works Cited
Part II: Documenting Class
Chapter 6: Performing Class and Taste through the Documentary Lens
Class from Within and Without
The “Documentary Eye” and Performative Ethnography
The First Programme. Going Local 1: Sunderland
Men
Women
“Roots”
Presenting the Results
The Second Programme. Going Local 2: Tunbridge Wells
The New Middle Class
The Old Middle Class
Tribes, Journeys, and Values
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 7: How the Other Half Lives: The Will to Document from Poverty to Precarity
Liberal Reform and the Poverty of Sympathy
Precarity and the State of Insecurity
Works Cited
Part 3: Media Leisure/Labor
Chapter 8: The Working Class, Ordinary Celebrity, and “Illegitimate” Cultural Work
Introduction
The Structural Changes That Enable Reality Celebrity
Fools, Shirkers, and the Decline of the Working Class
Reality Television: “The Work of Being Watched”
Revaluing the Work of Ordinary Celebrity
Conclusion: Ordinary Celebrity as Ordinary Work?
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Idols of Self-production: Selfies, Career Success, and Social Class
Selfies: The Calling Cards of Neoliberalism
Selfies: Your Confidence Calling Card
Career Selfies: Positivity, Play, and Passion
Conclusion: Idols of Self-production
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 10: Rich TV, Poor TV: Work, Leisure, and the Construction of “Deserved Inequality” in Contemporary Britain
Introduction
The Return of “Scroungerphobia”
Celebrity and Class in Reality TV
Reinventing the Rich: Aristocrats “Learning to Labour”
The Contemporary Construction of “Deserved Inequality”
Notes
Works Cited
Part IV: Digital Cultures
Chapter 11: When Left Theory “Leaves Behind the Dream of a Revolution”: Class and the Software Economy
Erasing Class: The “Life” of Software Assemblages
Software and the “Hidden Abode” of Production
Works Cited
Chapter 12: Class in “The Class”: Conservative, Competitive, and (Dis)connected
Conceiving of Class Difference
Mediated Imaginaries
Educational Aspirations and the Digital Home
Mediated Disconnections
Conclusions
Note
Works Cited
Chapter 13: For Themselves and for Their Communities: Alternative Mediations of Digital Natives
What Is a Digital Native?
Favela em Dança
Noirlinians
Concluding Observations
Works Cited
Chapter 14: Big Data is Too Small: Research Implications of Class Inequality for Online Data Collection
Introduction
Big Data and the Scientific Method
Digital Production Inequality: What’s Missing?
How Is Big Data Too Small?
Network Analysis
Automated Text Analysis
Survey Data
Online Ethnography
Implications of Small Data
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index