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Class and contemporary British culture / Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn.

By: Biressi, Anita, 1965- [author.]Contributor(s): Nunn, Heather [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: 256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137577023 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Social classes -- Great Britain | Social classes in mass media -- Great Britain | Mass media -- Social aspects -- Great Britain | Popular culture -- Great Britain | Society | SocietyDDC classification: 305.5'0941 Summary: How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved.
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Originally published: 2013.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved.

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