Looking at Class

By: Huw Beynon, Sheila Rowbotham

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Paperback | 1 January 2001

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Television and film not only entertain and reflect social change, they may also participate and influence these changes -- the recent success of The Full Monty and Billy Elliot show popular British comedy based on such painful social transformations.Looking at Class brings together film and television practitioners with academic students of cultural and economic change to examine the media representation of the British working class in the twentieth century -- a time of decline for the manual working class when a complex service-based economy emerged. The book covers a large range of genres from documentaries to soaps and shows that complex cultural transitions can be communicated clearly in prose as well as in screen drama.

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Acknowledgements
Whatever Happened to the Working Class?	p. 1
Handling n Histories	p. 2
Images of Labour/Images of Class	p. 25
Challenging the Class Divide	p. 41
A Paradoxical Turning Point: 1959 to 1960	p. 44
One Thing Leads to Another	p. 55
Making Sense of the World	p. 67
Working in the Field	p. 70
The Subversive Who Surprises: Ken Loach	p. 83
Letting Voices be Heard	p. 88
'Ways of Seeing'	p. 96
Changing Images	p. 99
Reimagining the Working Class: From Riff-Raff to Nil by Mouth	p. 113
Putting Life into Theory	p. 132
Testifying to their Times	p. 143
Making Images Explode	p. 147
Documentary Poet	p. 159
Revealing Desires	p. 173
Struggle Not Submission	p. 184
Access to the Air Waves	p. 199
Opening Channels: Channel 4 and After	p. 201
The Social Side of Soap: EastEnders	p. 211
Our Friends in the North	p. 221
Digital Television: An Emancipatory Moment in Waiting?	p. 228
Select Bibliography	p. 239
Index	p. 243
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