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Author:   June Deery (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA) ,  Andrea Press (University of Virginia, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.317kg
ISBN:  

9781138229792

ISBN 10:   1138229792
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   19 October 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"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"

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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.

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