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SECTIONS: Class Matters, The American Dream Machine, From the Margins to the Middle, Women Have Class, Class Clowns, No Class, Class Action
Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shoes, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing deceptions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants - stereotypical portrayals that reinforce
SECTIONS: Class Matters, The American Dream Machine, From the Margins to the Middle, Women Have Class, Class Clowns, No Class, Class Action
Based on the forthcoming book by Pepi Leistyna, Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shoes, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.
Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing deceptions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants - stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy.
Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.
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