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Cultural studies and the working class.

By: Munt, Sally RContributor(s): Munt, Sally R , ProfessorMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781441115430Subject(s): Industries -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Working class -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural Studies and the Working ClassDDC classification: 305.562094 LOC classification: HD8391 -- .C85 2000ebOnline access: Open e-book
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Issues in Working-Class Identity and Methodology -- 1 If Anywhere: Class Identifications and Cultural Studies Academics -- 2 Discursive Mothers and Academic Fandom: Class, Generation and the Production of Theory -- 3 The Theme That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Class and Recent British Film -- 4 'This Is About Us, This Is Our Film!' Personal and Popular Discourses of 'Underclass' -- 5 Black Women and Social-Class Identity -- Part 2: Class, Taste and Space -- 6 Culture, Class and Taste -- 7 Escape and Escapism: Representing Working-Class Women -- 8 The Appearance of Class: Challenges in Gay Space -- 9 Children's Urban Landscapes: Configurations of Class and Place -- Part 3: Gender, Fictions and Working-Class Subjectivities -- 10 'Who Do You Say I Am?' Jesus, Gender and the (Working-Class) Family Romance -- 11 Death in the Good Old Days: True Crime Tales and Social History -- 12 'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man': Social Class and the Female Voice in Nil by Mouth -- 13 Homophobic Violence: The Hidden Injuries of Class -- 14 Millwall Football Club: Masculinity, Race and Belonging -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema, football, romance magazines and club culture. The essays pose methodologies for understanding working-class responses to dominant culture, and explore the contradictions and limitations of the traditional Marxist model. The book's contributors conclude that it is time for cultural theorists to revisit issues of working-class cultural formations and to renew the original radical intentions of the discipline by reintegrating class analysis into social templates of race, sexuality and gender.
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Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1: Issues in Working-Class Identity and Methodology -- 1 If Anywhere: Class Identifications and Cultural Studies Academics -- 2 Discursive Mothers and Academic Fandom: Class, Generation and the Production of Theory -- 3 The Theme That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Class and Recent British Film -- 4 'This Is About Us, This Is Our Film!' Personal and Popular Discourses of 'Underclass' -- 5 Black Women and Social-Class Identity -- Part 2: Class, Taste and Space -- 6 Culture, Class and Taste -- 7 Escape and Escapism: Representing Working-Class Women -- 8 The Appearance of Class: Challenges in Gay Space -- 9 Children's Urban Landscapes: Configurations of Class and Place -- Part 3: Gender, Fictions and Working-Class Subjectivities -- 10 'Who Do You Say I Am?' Jesus, Gender and the (Working-Class) Family Romance -- 11 Death in the Good Old Days: True Crime Tales and Social History -- 12 'Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man': Social Class and the Female Voice in Nil by Mouth -- 13 Homophobic Violence: The Hidden Injuries of Class -- 14 Millwall Football Club: Masculinity, Race and Belonging -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema, football, romance magazines and club culture. The essays pose methodologies for understanding working-class responses to dominant culture, and explore the contradictions and limitations of the traditional Marxist model. The book's contributors conclude that it is time for cultural theorists to revisit issues of working-class cultural formations and to renew the original radical intentions of the discipline by reintegrating class analysis into social templates of race, sexuality and gender.

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