Social class on British and American screens: essays on cinema and television

Introduction / Nicole Cloarec --
Part One. The persistence of stereotypes: social classes in TV sitcoms and series --
Six decades of social class in American sitcoms / Richard Butsch --
Social class and class distinctions in \"Britcoms\" (1950s/2000s) / Renøe Dickason --
Authenticity and performance of class in British factual TV series / Jonathan Bignell --
Part Two. Going beyond stereotypes social classes in documentaries and docudramas --
\"The only way is UP\": social mobility in Michael Apted\'s UP documentary series / Sabine Hillen --
Race and class in Luisa Dantas\'s land of opportunity (2011) / Delphine Letort --
\"Giz a job! I can do that!\" the unmaking of the British working class in Alan Bleasdale\'s Boys from the Blackstuff / Carys Lewis --
From documentary to docudrama: \"post-war British television and the social issues of the lower classes\" / Georges Fournier --
Part Three. Representing class divisions in films --
The representation of strike in British cinema since 1956: from class to gender and ethnicity / Anne-Lise Marin-Lamellet --
In praise of the working poor: archeology of class struggle through the arts of representation in Comrades and The fool / Nicole Cloarec --
Ken Loach and the geographies of class / Wendy Everett --
Part Four. Social classes through a gender perspective --
Vanishing act: the sexualization of the workplace and disappearance of class in American television dramas (1990s/2010s) / Ava Baron --
The gender and class politics of social realism in The wire / T. Ann Kennedy --
Striking women: salt of the earth, Norma Rae and Bread and roses / Penny Starfield --
Art and the reversal of hierarchies: representing women in domestic service in Upstairs, downstairs / Delphine Lemonnier-Texier --
About the contributors.