Reality Television and Class by Helen Wood

Reality Television and Class by Helen Wood

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 book examines why class politics matter against much political and academic rhetoric which refract inequality through other means.

This is a very exciting bookA volume of this scope on the class politics of reality TV is long overdue, and this is clearly going to be the authoritative work on the subject. Reality Television and Classgives us the tools for bringing about not just a theoretical, but also a political, renewal in the study of TV, in all of its forms. -- NYU * Anna McCarthy *
This book delivers a crucial new terrain for intellectual and practical struggles over communication and representation. Read it to find your way through the new jungles of proxy class warfare! -- Princeton University * Paul Willis *

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 Modern Self-Reflexivity (2009).

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.

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ISBN 13	9781844573974
ISBN 10	1844573974
Title	Reality Television and Class
Author	Helen Wood
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2011-12-12
Number of pages	264
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