TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Gwendolyn Audrey
TI  - Class-passing: social mobility in film and popular culture 
SN  - 0809326566 (pbk. : alk. paper) :
AV  - P94.65.U6 F67 2005
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Carbondale, IL
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Mass media and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Social mobility
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-127) and index; Class-passing and the American dream -- Class-passing, consumerism, and gender -- Class-passing and negotiations of masculinity -- Celebrity fantasies: marriage and class mobility -- Live in your world, class-pass in ours -- Classing the body: cash-passing and class "mashup"
N2  - Oprah Winfrey, Donald Trump, Roseanne Barr, 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. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc
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