Reality Television and Class

by Skeggs, Beverley; Wood, Helen

• ISBN13: 9781844573974
• ISBN10: 1844573974
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: British Film Institute

Summary

How does class get 'cast' and made performative? What modes are there for people to wrestle-back their forms of representation? And how should we understand this intense manipulation of feeling? This bookexamines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means.

Author Biography

Helen wood is Reader in Media and Communication at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Talking With Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modem Self-Reflexivity{2m). Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her publications include Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (1997) and Class, Self, Culture (2004), and she is the co-editor of the journal Sociological Review.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood	p. 1
Introduction: Real Class
Mediated Exchange and Judgment
Nick Couldry	p. 33
Class and Contemporary Forms of Reality' Production or, Hidden Injuries of Class 2
Andrew Tolson	p. 45
I'm common and my talking is quite abrupt' (Jade Goody): Language and Class in Celebrity Big Brother
Mark Andrejevic	p. 60
Managing the Borders: Classed Mobility on Security-Themed Reality TV
Zala Volcic and Karmen Erjavec	p. 73
Fame on the Farm: Class and Celebrity on Slovene Reality TV
Anikó Imre and Annabel Tremlett	p. 88
Reality TV without Class: The Post-Socialist Anti-Celebrity Docusoap
Tania Lewis	p. 104
'You've put yourselves on a plate': The Labours of Selfhood on MasterChef Australia
Normalisation, Aspiration and Its Limits
Lisa Taylor	p. 119
'I'm a girl, I should be a princess': Gender, Class Entitlement and Denial in The Hills
Gareth Palmer	p. 132
Organic Branding: The Self; Advertising and Life-Experience Formats
Anita Biressi	p. 144
'The Virtuous Circle': Social Entrepreneurship and Welfare Programming in the UK
Brenda R.Weber	p. 156
From All-American Mom to Super Bitch from Hell: Kate Gosselin and the Classed and Gendered Politics of Reality Celebrity
Heather Nunn	p. 169
Investing in the 'Forever Home': From Property Programming to 'Retreat TV"
Performing and Feeling Class
Vicki Mayer	p. 185
Reality Television's 'Classrooms': Knowing, Showing and Telling about Social Class in Reality Casting and the College Classroom
Laura Grindstaff	p. 197
From Jerry Springer to Jersey Shore: The Cultural Politics of Class in/on US Reality Programming
Imogen Tyler	p. 210
Pramface Girls: The Class Politics of Maternal TV"
ValerieWalkerdine	p. 225
Shame on You! Intergenerational Trauma and Working-Class Femininity on Reality Television
Lisa Blackman	p. 237
'This is a matter of pride': The Choir. Unsung Town and Community Transformation
Index	p. 250
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