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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Slumming Drama
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Front Matter
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Class and Status Trauma
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Slumming Trauma
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Back Matter
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"This provocative study looks at the intersection of the literary and filmic in terms of what Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb called "the hidden injuries of class".....a stimulating discussion that should generate further examination by scholars of class in American literature and society." - Choice"In this highly original study Gandal demonstrates how preoccupations with race and gender not only obscure but, in fact, contribute to the class-based exploitation that is a staple of modern American culture, whether in iconoclastic figures such as Zora Neale Hurston and Henry Miller or in Hollywood blockbusters.This unusual and provocative book deserves a wide audience." - Eric J. Sundquist, UCLA
"Uniquely blending film criticism and literary analysis, Gandal s book offers one of the most nuanced accounts yet of the archetypal patterns that have shaped our stories about the poor, and the way these patterns get reflected and refracted in contemporary movies. This is an important contribution not only to the growing awareness of poverty and class inequality in American society and culture but also to our critical capacity to decode the intricate politics of form that underlies popular media representation." - Gavin Jones, Stanford University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film
Authors: Keith Gandal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230604193
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Keith Gandal 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7792-2Published: 08 June 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53792-1Published: 08 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-60419-3Published: 16 April 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 226
Topics: North American Literature, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Screen Studies, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory