Class Divisions in Serial Television

Introduction: Class Di_visions and the Cultural Politics of Serial Television.Sieglinde Lemke and Wibke Schniedermann.- Part I.(Di)Vision: "Lower" Class Televisibility.- 1.Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption.Diana Kendall.- 2.American Media's Class Distinctions: "Hillbillies," "Welfare Queens," and "Teen Moms".Diana Owen.- 3.The Paradoxical Class Politics in Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.Evangelia Kindinger.- 4.Reality TV and Its Audiences Reconsidered: Class and Poverty in Undercover Boss.Tanja Aho. Part II.Di*Visions: Screening Exploitation, Neoliberal Lies, and the Politics of Class Realignment.- 5.Lifestyle Precarity and Creative Class Affirmation in Girls.Eric C. Erbacher.- 6.House of Lies and the Management of Emotions.Stefanie Mueller.- 7.The Financialization of Domestic Space in Arrested Development and Breaking Bad.Julia Leyda.- 8.Realignment and Televisual Intellect: The Telepraxis of Class Alliances in Contemporary Subscription Television Drama.Stephen Shapiro

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137594489
• ISBN13: 9781137594488
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.3"