Class Divisions in Serial Television

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Sous la direction de Sieglinde Lemke et Wibke Schniedermann

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > TV Series

Mots Clés

TV Series, sociology

Année d'édition

2017

Editeur

Palgrave MacMillan

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 220 pages
6 x 8 ¼ inches (15 x 21 cm)

ISBN

978-1-137-59448-8

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Description de l'ouvrage:
This book brings the emergent interest in social class and inequality to the field of television studies. It reveals how the new visibility of class matters in serial television functions aesthetically and examines the cultural class politics articulated in these programmes. This ground-breaking volume argues that reality and quality TV’s intricate politics of class entices viewers not only to grapple with previously invisible socio-economic realities but also to reconsider their class alignment. The stereotypical ways of framing class are now supplemented by those dedicated to exposing the economic and socio-psychological burdens of the (lower) middle class. The case studies in this book demonstrate how sophisticated narrative techniques coincide with equally complex ways of exposing class divisions in contemporary American life and how the examined shows disrupt the hegemonic order of class. The volume therefore also invites a rethinking of conventional models of social stratification.

À propos des auteurs :
Sieglinde Lemke is the author of Poverty, Inequality, and Precarity in Contemporary American Culture (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), Vernacular Matters in American Literature (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and Primitivist Modernism: Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism (1998). She studied at the University of Konstanz and at UC Berkeley, was a guest professor at Harvard and taught at the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Free University in Berlin. As a Senior Professor in the English Department at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, Lemke teaches American Cultural and Media Studies and is also the director of the Black Forest Writing Seminars. Wibke Schniedermann is a postdoctoral researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Giessen University, Germany where she is currently working on a book about representations of homelessness in American culture. Schniedermannreceived her PhD in American Studies from Frankfurt University and was part of a research project funded by the German Research Foundation at Freiburg University. She has taught American literary and cultural studies at Frankfurt University and Mannheim University.

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