Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe

Acknowledgements
About the Book
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Perspectives on Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty in European Contexts
	Intersections of the Study of Class and Media
	A Socio-Cultural Approach to Class and Poverty
	Shame and Shaming
	The European Perspective of Class and Poverty as Objects of Shame
	Chapter Overview
	References
Chapter 2: ‘Benefits Scroungers’ and Stigma: Exploring the Abject-Grotesque in British Poverty Porn Programming
	Broadcasting Benefits: An Explosion of ‘Poverty Porn’
	Beyond the Borders: The Abject and the Grotesque
	Methodology: Abject-Grotesque Frame Analysis
	Animating the ‘Benefits Mum’
	Internalising ‘Scrounger’ Stigma
	Embodying Abjection
	Us and Them, Self and Other: Maintaining the Boundaries
	Transgressing Limits
	Transferring or Reinforcing Stigma?
	Conclusion: The ‘Benefits Scrounger’ as an Abject-Grotesque Figure
	References
Chapter 3: Neural Attunement to Others: Shame, Social Status, and Rewarded Viewing in Reality Television in Sweden
	Neuroscience and Media Engagement
	Misconduct on Lyxfällan
	Shame and Devaluation
	The Work of Dis-identification: Feelings-in-Common
	Scorn, Self-Worth, and Social Comparison
	Emotional Memories: Neural Attunement to Others
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 4: Shame, (Dis)empowerment and Resistance in Diasporic Media: Romanian Transnational Migrants’ Reclassification Struggles
	Shame and Reclassification Struggles in Transnational Contexts
	Shame and Reclassification Struggles in Public Culture and Discourses: Romanian ‘Badanti’ and ‘Strawberry Pickers’
	Corpus and Analytical Framework
	Findings and Discussion: Reactions to Shame as Forms of Empowerment and Resistance
		Deprivation, Shame and Emigration
		Resistance to Shame in the Host Country
		Resistance to Shame in the Home Country
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 5: Mediating Class in a Classless Society? Media and Social Inequalities in Socialist Eastern Europe
	Class Inequalities, Middle-Class Values and Consumer Culture in State Socialist Societies
	The Model Workers of State Socialist TV Fiction
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 6: Invisibility or Inevitability: Performing Poverty in Czech Reality Television
	Researching Poverty Performance in Reality Television
	Inevitable Poverty Performed as Difference in Kind
	Poverty Made Invisible—Performing the Magic of Disappearance
	Poverty as Misdemeanour—Shaming in Reality Television
	Discussion
	References
Chapter 7: Shaming Working-Class People on Reality Television: Perspectives from Swedish Television Production
	The Social Background and Position of Media Producers
	Media Work as Interpretative Labour
	Situating the Producers of Swedish Reality Television
	Genre Interpretations of Reality Television
	The Cultural Status of Reality Television
	Casting and Editing Class
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8: Disparaging ‘the Assisted’: Shaming and Blaming Social Welfare Recipients in Romania and Hungary
	Theoretical Background and the Local Context
	Research Design and Methodology
	Discursive Patterns of Disparaging ‘the Assisted’
	Shaming Frames in Visual Content
	Disparaging Discourses in Comments: Welfare as Referential Strategy and Shameful Attribute
	From the Language of Welfare to Welfare as a Political Language
	References
Chapter 9: Othering Without Blaming: Representing Poverty in Flemish Factual Entertainment
	Media Representations of Poverty
	Methodology: Studying Poverty in Contemporary Flemish Television
	Televisual Approaches to Poverty
	Underlying Explanatory Models
	Production Rationale
	Discussion and Conclusion
	References
Chapter 10: Inter- and Intranational Mediated Shaming to Justify Austerity Measures: The Case of the ‘Greek Crisis’
	Middle-Class Shaming
	The Greek Crisis Publicity as a Class Shaming Practice
	Data and Method of Analysis for the Shaming of Greece in the Media
	Framing the Failed ‘Peer’
	Affective Negations: Ridicule, Spite and Contempt
	Shaming ‘Ourselves’: The Case of the Greek Liberal and Conservative Media
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Social Distances Through Scopic Practices: How Czech Reality Television Audiences Negotiate Social Inequalities
	Scopic Practices and the Concept of Class in a Cultural and Relational Approach to Social Inequalities
	Methodological Note
	Foregrounding Class Attributes
	Relational Analysis
		Social Distance: Different from the Abnormal Them
		Moral Condemnation: Different from the Torpid Passivity
		Emotions of Distance and Proximity
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: Everybody Is a Fool: Rural Life, Social Order and Carnivalesque Marginalisation in a Hungarian Television Series
	From Socialism to Post-socialism: Dismantling the Working Class and the Missing Middle
	Focus on the Countryside
	Representing and (Re)imagining the Rural
	Laughing at/in the Village
	A mi kis falunk and Domestic Disorder
	Remoteness and Nostalgia
	Hedonism, Sovereignty and Small Community
	We Do It in Our Way
	Ambivalent Representation of Gender Dynamics and Social Divisions
	In the Critical Crossfire
	Conclusion
	References
Index