Social Class on British and American Screens

Nicole Cloarec is an associate professor in English at the University of Rennes 1 in France. She is the author of a doctoral thesis on Peter Greenaway and a number of articles on British and North American cinema. David Haigron is an associate professor in English at the University of Rennes 2 in France. His research focuses on political ideology and communication, as well as social representations in cinema and television productions. Delphine Letort is an associate professor in English at the University of Maine, Le Mans, France. Her research deals with issues of race, class, gender and historical representations in American cinema.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction delete(Nicole Cloarec)Part One. The Persistence of Stereotypes: Social Class in TV Sitcoms and SeriesSix Decades of Social Class in American Sitcoms delete(Richard Butsch)Social Class and Class Distinctions in “Britcoms” (1950s–2000s) delete(Renée Dickason)Authenticity and Performance of Class in British Factual TV Series delete(Jonathan Bignell)Part Two. Going Beyond Stereotypes? Social Class in Documentaries and Docudramas“The only way is UP”: Social Mobility in Michael Apted’s UP Documentary Series delete(Sabine Hillen)Race and Class in Luisa Dantas’s Land of Opportunity (Delphine Letort)“Gizza job! I can do that!” The Unmaking of the British Working Class in Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff delete(Carys Lewis)From Documentary to Docudrama: ­Post-War British Television and the Social Issues of the Lower Classes delete(Georges Fournier)Part Three. Representing Class Divisions in FilmsThe Representation of Strike in British Cinema Since 1956: From Class to Gender and Ethnicity delete(Anne-Lise ­Marin-Lamellet)In Praise of the Working Poor: Archeology of Class Struggle through the Arts of Representation in Comrades and The Fool (Nicole Cloarec)Ken Loach and the Geographies of Class delete(Wendy Everett)Part Four. Social Class through a Gender Perspective Vanishing Act: The Sexualization of the Workplace and Disappearance of Class in American Television Dramas (1990s–2010s) delete(Ava Baron)The Gender and Class Politics of Social Realism in The Wire (T. Ann Kennedy)Striking Women: Salt of the Earth, Norma Rae and Bread and Roses delete(Penny Starfield)Art and the Reversal of Hierarchies: Representing Women in Domestic Service in Upstairs, Downstairs (Delphine ­Lemonnier-Texier)About the ContributorsIndex

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