Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture

by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, Martha Stewart, and Britney Spears typify class-passers--those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own--asserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster in Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture. According to new rules of social standing in American popular culture, class is no longer defined by wealth, birth, or education. Instead, today's notion of class reflects a socially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809326566
• ISBN13: 9780809326563
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"