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Class dismissed : how TV frames the working class / a project by Pepi Leistyna ; directed by Loretta Alper ; produced & written by Loretta Alper & Pepi Leistyna.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Race.
- Social classes in mass media.
- Television.
- Working class on television.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Streaming video.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (62 min.)) : sound, color
- Contained In:
- Media Education Foundation Collection
- Place of Publication:
- [Northampton, Massachusetts] : Media Education Foundation, [2005]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file MPEG-4 Flash
- Summary:
- Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representation from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows. This documentary breaks important new ground in exploring wasy in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. Featuring interviews with Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Herman Gray, Robin Kelley, Pepi Leistyna, Michael Zweig, Arlene Davila, Susan Douglas, Bambi Haggins, Lisa Henderson, Andrea Press, and others.
- Contents:
- Class matters
- The American dream machine
- From the margins to the middle
- Women have class
- Class clowns
- No class
- Class action.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Ed Asner.
- Credits:
- Editor, Jeremy Smith ; camera, Julius Bolton ... [et al.] ; original music, Thom Monahan.
- Notes:
- Originally produced by Media Education Foundation in 2005.
- Other Format:
- VHS version: Class dismissed
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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