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Oprah Winfrey, �Roseanne Barr, Martha Stewart, and Britney Spears typify class-passers--those who claim different socioeconomic classes as their own--asserts Gwendolyn Audrey Foster 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 through the landscape of popular films, reality television shows, advertisements, the Internet, and video games. She deconstructs the politics of celebrity, fashion, and conspicuous consumerism and analyzes class-passing as it relates to the American Dream, gender, and marriage.
Class-Passing draws on dozens of examples from popular culture, from old movie classics and contemporary films to print ads and cyberspace, to illustrate how flagrant displays of wealth that were once unacceptable under the old rules of behavior are now flaunted by class-passing celebrities. From the construction worker in Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? to the privileged socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie of The Simple Life, Foster explores the fantasy of contact between the classes.�She also refers to television class-passers from The Apprentice, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and Survivor and notable class-passing achievers Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and P. Diddy.
Class-Passing is a notable examination of the historical, social, and ideological shifts in expressions of class. The first serious book of its kind, Class-Passing is fresh, innovative, and invaluable for students and scholars of film, television, and popular culture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. Class - Passing and The American Dream
2. Class - Passing, Consumerism and Gender
3. Class - Passing and Negotiations of Masculinity
4. Celebrity Fantasies: Marriage and Class Mobility
5. Live on Your World, Class - Pass in Ours
6. Classing the Body, Cash - Passing and Class Mashup
- Sales Rank: #2912505 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Southern Illinois University Press
- Published on: 2005-08-29
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .50" w x 6.00" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Review
"Both timely and pertinent to the current discussion on class and culture in the US, Foster's book is a must. Summing up: Essential."--CHOICE
Chosen as an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice in 2005.
"Foster presents a timely indictment of US 'celebrity' culture,wherein a credit card, plastic surgery, and happy pills represent thekeys to the American Dream. She examines how constant exposure to thefantasy world of the rich and famous impacts the lives of averageindividuals, who try to replicate these worlds through behavior, dress,and, in many cases, dieting and/or plastic surgery. And if all thisfails to help them achieve the American Dream of unending luxury andfame, these celebrity-seduced individuals can always turn topharmaceuticals for their ultimate happiness.
Foster also points out that the illusions created by the media lead many tobelieve they can "class-pass" as one of their favorite celebrities with a mere swipe of their credit card, an idea promoted throughadvertisements, reality television shows such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and documentary programming like VH1's The Fabulous Life. Both timely and pertinent to the current discourse on class and culture in the US, Foster's book is a must. Summing Up: Essential. All readers; all levels. -- A. F. Winstead
“Class-Passing is positively overflowing with ideas and insights, teeming with splendid observations of an original and challenging nature. Foster’s ability to link class with issues of race, gender, and the body is quite marvelous and convincing. Class-Passing is very much in the forefront of contemporary film and cultural studies, superior in every way.”—David Desser, University of Illinois
“At a time when studies of social class in media representation have taken a back seat to analyses of race and gender, Class-Passing, in daring and original fashion, maps and elaborates on contradictions in performing social class via the media and popular culture. The book is commendable for the range of examples that illustrate continuities and changes in representations of social class as well as their relation to treatments of race and gender. Foster’s innovative analysis is not restricted to cinema but includes television, advertising, etiquette books, popular manuals, and video games, providing a broad field from which to assess the character and vicissitudes of class passing.”—Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburgh
About the Author
Gwendolyn Audrey Foster,�Willa Cather Endowed Professor of English in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is the author of numerous books in film and literature. Her book, Performing Whiteness: Postmodern Re/Constructions in the Cinema, was named an Outstanding Title in the Humanities for 2004 by Choice.
Foster's most recent book is Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Classed, and Gendered Bodies in Film published by Palgrave/ Macmillan.
Visit gwendolynaudreyfoster.com for more information on the publications of Gwendolyn Audrey Foster.
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