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Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
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Description for Class-Passing: Social Mobility in Film and Popular Culture
Paperback. Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers - those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own. The book deconstructs the politics of celebrity, fashion, and conspicuous consumerism and analyzes class-passing as it relates to the American Dream, gender, and marriage. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFCA; JFD; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 222.
Reassesses the rules of social standing in American popular culture. Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers - those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts so 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 constructed and regulated series of performed acts and gestures rooted in the cult of celebrity. In examining the quest for class mobility, Foster deftly traces class-passing ... Read more
Reassesses the rules of social standing in American popular culture. Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, and Britney Spears typify class-passers - those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster asserts so 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 constructed and regulated series of performed acts and gestures rooted in the cult of celebrity. In examining the quest for class mobility, Foster deftly traces class-passing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326563
SKU
V9780809326563
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About Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster, a professor of film studies, women's studies, and cultural studies in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is the author of eight books. Her most recent book, Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema, was named an outstanding title in the humanities for 2004 by Choice.
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