Class dismissed
Subtitle: how TV frames the working class
By: a project by Pepi Leistyna ; directed by Loretta Alper ; produced & written by Loretta Alper & Pepi Leistyna
Contributors: Asner, Edward; Media Education Foundation
Series: SOC 100 (NU course); SOC 540 (NU course); SOC 604 (NU course)
Publisher: Media Education Foundation
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Northampton, MA]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 62
ISBN-13: 9781932869033
Subjects: Working class on television; Social classes in mass media; Mass media
Other titles: How TV frames the working class; How television frames the working class
Description: "Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants--stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy."--Container.
Notes: Contains 42 min. of additional interview footage.

Camera, Julius Bolton ... [et al.] ; editor, Jeremy Smith.

Narrator, Ed Asner.

DVD.

In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Table of contents: title: Class matters; title: The American dream machine; title: From the margins to the middle; title: Women have class; title: Class clowns; title: No class; title: Class action.