The British working class in postwar film
The British working class in postwar film

Author: Philip Gillett

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1526141809

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An incidental pleasure of watching a film is what it tells us about the society in which it is made. Using a sociological model, The British working class in postwar film looks at how working-class people were portrayed in British feature films in the decade after the Second World War. Though some of the films examined are well known, others have been forgotten and deserve reassessment. Original statistical data is used to assess the popularity of the films with audiences. With its interdisciplinary approach and the avoidance of jargon, this book seeks to broaden the approach to film studies. Students of media and cultural studies are introduced to the skills of other disciplines, while sociologists and historians are encouraged to consider the value of film evidence in their own fields. This work should appeal to all readers interested in social history and in how cinema and society works.

Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

Author: Prof Joanna Bourke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134858582

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Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity is essentially a social and cultural rather than an institutional or political phenomenon and therefore cannot be understood without constant reference to gender and ethnicity. Each self contained chapter consists of an essay of historical analysis, introducing students to the ways historians use evidence to understand change, as well as useful chronologies, statistics and tables, suggested topics for discussion, and selective further reading.

Working-class Fiction
Working-class Fiction

Author: Ian Haywood

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 0746307853

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This is the first study for more than ten years of this radical genre, covering working class literature over the last 150 years. It argues that working-class fiction has flourished in periods of major social and political change.

The working class in mid-twentieth-century England
The working class in mid-twentieth-century England

Author: Ben Jones

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-09-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1526130300

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This book maps how working class life was transformed in England in the middle years of the twentieth century. National trends in employment, welfare and living standards are illuminated via a focus on Brighton, providing valuable new perspectives of class and community formation. Based on fresh archival research, life histories and contemporary social surveys, the book historicises important cultural and community studies which moulded popular perceptions of class and social change in the post-war period. It shows how council housing, slum clearance and demographic trends impacted on working-class families and communities. While suburbanisation transformed home life, leisure and patterns of association, there were important continuities in terms of material poverty, social networks and cultural practices. This book will be essential reading for academics and students researching modern and contemporary social and cultural history, sociology, cultural studies and human geography.

Cultural Studies and the Working Class
Cultural Studies and the Working Class

Author: Sally R. Munt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-03-01

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1441115439

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This work challenges the field of British cultural studies to return to the question of social class as a primary focus of study. The chapters examine contemporary working-class life and its depiction in the media through a number of case studies on topics such as popular cinema, football, romance magazines and club culture. The essays pose methodologies for understanding working-class responses to dominant culture, and explore the contradictions and limitations of the traditional Marxist model. The book's contributors conclude that it is time for cultural theorists to revisit issues of working-class cultural formations and to renew the original radical intentions of the discipline by reintegrating class analysis into social templates of race, sexuality and gender.

The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing
The Intersection of Class and Space in British Postwar Writing

Author: Simon Lee

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-12-29

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1350193119

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Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built environment's influence on class consciousness, this book highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films, turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period's texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs class identity.

Class, Culture and Social Change
Class, Culture and Social Change

Author: J. Kirk

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-10-11

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 0230590225

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Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, Valentin Volosinov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the book examines key issues for working-class studies including: the idea of the 'death' of class; the importance of working-class writing; the significance of place and space for understanding working-class identity; and the centrality of work in working-class lives.

Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain

Author: Alan Sinfield

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1441179135

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Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and "mass" cultures - and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author.