ISBN:
9780313391989
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (739 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore
DDC:
305.5/620973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
From television, film, and music to sports, comics, and everyday life, this book provides a comprehensive view of working-class culture in America
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Volume 1: Film, Music, and Sports; Contents; Set Introduction; Introduction: Blue-Collar Culture Industry: Film, Music, Sport, and the American Working Class; Part I: Blue-Collar Film; 1. Blue Collars and Pink Skirts: Female Office Workers in Early and Golden Age Cinema; 2. Striking Women: Gender, Labor, and Working-Class Politics in Film from Salt of the Earth to North Country; 3. Canadian Crossings: Exploring the Borders of Race and Class in Courtney Hunt's Frozen River; 4. Challenging White-Trash Stereotypes: The Question of Class in Bastard out of Carolina
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Rednecks in Film: Identity and Power from Deliverance to Cars6. Road Work: Smokey and the Bandit and the Trucker Film; 7. City Workers, Country Workers: The Urban and Rural Working Class in Southern Film; 8. Working-Class Children: Disappearing from Contemporary American Children's Films; 9. Reach for the Stars: Imagining the American Dream for Working-Class Teens in Science Fiction Film; 10. "No Free Rides, No Excuses": Film Stereotypes of Urban Working-Class Students; 11. Blue-Collar Heroes: War Movies and the Working Class
Description / Table of Contents:
12. Whistle While We Work: Working-Class Labor in Hollywood Film Musicals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to NewsiesPart II: Blue-Collar Music; 13. Workingman's Song: The Blues as Working-Class Music; 14. Going "Stateside": The Beatles, America, and the Meanings of Class; 15. The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon; 16. Performing Working-Class Patriotism: Musical Responses to 9/11; Part III: Blue-Collar Sports; 17. Blue-Collar Ballplayers: Sports Movies and Class in America; 18. Disco, Tattoos, and Tutus: Blue-Collar Performances on Wheels
Description / Table of Contents:
19. Driving to Victory: NASCAR in American Culture20. Natural Bad Boys: The Rise of Mixed Martial Arts and the New Class of Combat Sport; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Contributors; Volume 2: Television and the Culture of Everyday Life; Contents; Introduction: Blue-Collar Broadcasting: Television and the American Working Class; Part I: Blue-Collar Television; 1. Fred, Homer, and Peter: Working-Class Men in Animated Television from The Flintstones to Family Guy; 2. Citizen Bunker: Archie Bunker as Working-Class Icon
Description / Table of Contents:
3. The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry as Working-Class Utopia4. Blue Collars/White Trash: The Poor White Stereotype in Blue-Collar Society as Enacted in The Beverly Hillbillies; 5. Poor Southern Whites as the Other in The X-Files and Other Recent Works of Popular Culture; 6. Domestic Goddess: Roseanne as Working-Class Icon; 7. Blue-Collar Science Fiction Television: Working for the Future; 8. Tony Soprano, Postmodern Scholarship Boy: Class in The Sopranos; 9. Working the Case: The Wire and Working-Class Cops on American Television; 10. Rescue Me: Working-Class Content, Middle-Class Style
Description / Table of Contents:
11. The Folding of the American Working Class in Mad Men
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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