[ecrea] New Edited Book: Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain

We are delighted to announce the publication of /Social Class and 
Television Drama in Contemporary Britain/ 
<http://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9781137555052>//

This edited collection contains 17 chapters by scholars from across the 
UK exploring the representation of social class in and through 
television drama in the contemporary period.

_Contents_

Foreword: Helen Wood

*Authorship and Class*
Chapter 1: ‘Introduction', David Forrest and Beth Johnson
Chapter 2: '/This is England/: Authorship, Emotion and Class Telly', 
Beth Johnson
Chapter 3: '/Jimmy McGovern’s The Street/ and the Politics of Everyday 
Life', David Forrest
Chapter 4: 'High-flyers, Hooligans and Helpmates: Images of Social Class 
in the Television Dramas of Stephen Poliakoff’, Stephen Harper

*Institutions and Structures of Class*
Chapter 5: 'Through Class Darkly: Class in the British TV Noir’, Paul 
Elliott
Chapter 6: 'Military Class: Hearts and Minds on the Domestic Screen', 
Felicity Colman and David James
Chapter 7: 'Creating a Level Playing Field: ‘Honest Endeavour 
Together!’: Social Mobility, Entrepreneurialism and Class in /Mr 
Selfridge/',//Gill Jamieson
Chapter 8: 'Social Class and Television Audiences in the 1990s’, James Dalby
Chapter 9: 'Searching for Hugh Gaitskell in a Neoliberal Landscape: 
Masculinities and Class Mobility in /Goodnight Sweetheart/', HollyGale 
Millette

*Place and Class*
Chapter 10: 'From Newcastle to Nashville: The Northern Soul of Jimmy 
Nail’, James Leggott
Chapter 11: '‘A Woman Like That Is Not A Woman, Quite. I Have Been Her 
Kind’: Maxine Peake and the Gothic Excess of Northern Femininity’, Het 
Phillips
Chapter 12: 'Class, Place and History in the Imaginative Landscapes of 
/Peaky Blinders/’, Paul Long
Chapter 13: 'Happy Valley: Compassion, Evil and Exploitation in an 
Ordinary ‘Trouble Town’', Helen Piper
*
*
*Taste and Class*
Chapter 14: '21st Century British Sitcom and 'the Hidden Injuries of 
Class’, Phil Wickham
Chapter 15: 'Animating Class in Contemporary British Television', Chris 
Pallant and James Newton
Chapter 16: 'Public Property: Celebrity and the Politics of New Labour 
in /Footballers’ Wives'/, Antony Mullen
Chapter 17: '/Grandma’s House /and the Charms of the Petit-Bourgeoisie', 
Sue Vice



---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------