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Class and contemporary British culture / Anita Biressi, reader in media cultures, University of Roehampton, UK, and Heather Nunn, professor of culture and politics, University of Roehampton, UK.

Title: Class and contemporary British culture / Anita Biressi, reader in media cultures, University of Roehampton, UK, and Heather Nunn, professor of culture and politics, University of Roehampton, UK.
Author: Biressi, Anita, 1965-
Publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Nunn, Heather.

Description

x, 244 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders of the new 'age of austerity'? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day this book investigates the changing landscape of class and reveals how it has become populated by a host of classed figures including Essex Man and Essex Girl, the 'squeezed middle', the 'sharp-elbowed middle class', the 'feral underclass', the 'white working class', the 'undeserving poor', 'selfish baby boomers' and others. Overall, the book argues that social class, although complicated and highly contested, remains a valid and fruitful route into understanding how contemporary British culture articulates social distinction and social difference and the significant costs and investments at stake for all involved."--Publisher's website.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-230) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: beginning the work of class and culture -- Essex: class, aspiration and social mobility -- The revolting "underclass": "you know them when you see them" -- Top of the class: education, capital and choice -- The ones who got away: celebrity life stories of upward social mobility -- The upper classes: visibility, adaptability and change -- "Are you thinking what we're thinking?" : class, immigration and belonging -- Austerity Britain: back to the future -- Afterword: "we are all in this together."

ISBN

9780230240568
0230240569

LCCN

^^2013003282

OCLC

825047264
SCSB-11852972

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Harvard Library