Mediated shame of class and poverty across Europe / / edited by Irena Reifová and Martin Hájek

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.5
• Soggetto topico: Social structure; Motion pictures - European influences; Ethnology - Europe
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ReifováIrena; HájekMartin
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe
• ISBN: 3-030-73543-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910490026303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II