Representation of Class
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- Created on: 04-03-14 09:03
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- CLASS
- MARXIST THEORY
- Media is controlled by the upper-class.
- The media is ideological and is reflected in its portrayal of the WC.
- NEO-MARXIST THEORY
- GUMG - focus on the medias anti-unions attitudes.
- Miners' strike of 1984 - pickets - violent and a threat to public order
- Trade unions in general are presented as unreasonable and making threats.
- Anti-union bias strengthens the employers' hands in negotiations.
- Strikes are depicted as bad , whatever the causes.
- Managers are also given time to explain their viewpoint and are interviewed in their offices in a calm atmosphere.
- Whereas workers are often briefly iterviewed on the picket lines - ADDS TO THE IMPRESSIO OF MILITANCY.
- GUMG - focus on the medias anti-unions attitudes.
- Richard Butsch
- Study of US TV programmes ' Ralph, Fred, Archie and Homer'
- Argues that TV recreates the stereotype of white WC men as buffoons who are immature ad irresponsible.
- Other working class stereotypes are sympathetic but often mocked.
- E.G. - Only Fools and Horses Del Boy
- Middle Class wives are preseted in a positive way, whereas WC wives tend to be invisible.
- Barbara Ehrenreich - TV rarely represents the iterests of WC people.
- WC men are portrayed as 'dumb, inarticulate and old-fashioned'
- The Royle Family - Idle father and a long suffering mother with a family of couch potatoes who watch TV and wait for their numbers to come up on the lottery.
- Soaps - WC communities - real ones have declined and fictional ones have multiplied.
- People often become attached to the characters in soaps - Marxists see this as another form of alienation and source of false consciousness.
- MARXIST THEORY
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