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Article: Film and the Working Class: The Feature Film in British and American Society.
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- March 22, 1993
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In recent years, books analyzing the cinematic depiction of race, ethnicity, and gender have proliferated, but the role of social class, especially in American film, has barely been acknowledged. Of course, there are no 'Class Studies' departments in American universities, and no self-conscious constituencies clamoring for the subject of class to become an integral part of the film curriculum. In fact, in a nation where almost everybody except the underclass and illegal aliens are viewed as a part of the great 'middle class,' consciousness of genuine class differences is either conveniently muted or doesn't exist at all.
Peter Stead--predictably a British rather than ...