Resignation and Positive Thinking in the Working-Class Family Sitcom
This article examines how two American Broadcasting Company programs, The Middle and Roseanne, portray working-class families differently to demonstrate a changing discourse in American culture about the possibilities of class resistance and social mobility. The article uses scholarship on framing a...
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| Published in: | Atlantic journal of communication Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 124 - 137 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Routledge
15-03-2014
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| Online Access: | Get full text |
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| Summary: | This article examines how two American Broadcasting Company programs, The Middle and Roseanne, portray working-class families differently to demonstrate a changing discourse in American culture about the possibilities of class resistance and social mobility. The article uses scholarship on framing and the representation of class to examine how The Middle has closed off possibilities for understanding class issues even while it purports to represent the struggles of the working class. It concludes that the program depicts positive thinking as described by
Ehrenreich (2009)
as a substitute for social action. |
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| ISSN: | 1545-6870 1545-6889 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15456870.2013.842573 |