Overview
- Analyzes both fictional and “reality” TV series
- Focuses on social class, representation and televisual semantics of class divisions
- Foregrounds the politics of television aesthetics and production
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Keywords
- Serial television
- class
- media framing
- post-financial crisis
- precarity
- reality TV
- quality TV
- cultural class studies
- representation
- cultural politics of class
- class alignment
- television studies
- viewer response
- redneck
- welfare queen
- hillbilly
- subscription television
- The Wire
- Breaking Bad
- Here Comes Honey Booboo
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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(Di)Vision: “Lower” Class Televisibility
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Di*Visions: Screening Exploitation, Neoliberal Lies, and Class Realignment
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Class Divisions in Serial Television
Editors: Sieglinde Lemke, Wibke Schniedermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59449-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59448-8Published: 05 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59449-5Published: 21 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Film Theory, Media and Communication, Cultural Anthropology