Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2012

ISBN13

9780313391996

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Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore provides a sophisticated, accessible, and entertaining examination of the intersection between American popular culture and working-class life in America. Covering topics as diverse as the attacks of September 11th, union loyalties, religion, trailer parks, professional wrestling, and Elvis Presley, the essays in this two-volume work will appeal to general readers and be valuable to scholars and students studying American popular culture.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Set Introduction.
Blue-Collar Culture Industry: Film, Music, Sport, and the American Working Class.
1: Blue-Collar Film.
2: Blue Collars and Pink Skirts: Female Office Workers in Early and Golden Age Cinema.
3: Striking Women: Gender, Labor, and Working-Class Politics in Film from Salt of the Earth to North Country.
4: Canadian Crossings: Exploring the Borders of Race and Class in Courtney Hunt's Frozen River.
5: Challenging White-Trash Stereotypes: The Question of Class in Bastard out of Carolina.
6: Rednecks in Film: Identity and Power from Deliverance to Cars.
7: Road Work: Smokey and the Bandit and the Trucker Film.
8: City Workers, Country Workers: The Urban and Rural Working Class in Southern Film.
9: Working-Class Children: Disappearing from Contemporary American Children's Films.
10: Reach for the Stars: Imagining the American Dream for Working-Class Teens in Science Fiction Film.
11: “No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes of Urban Working-Class Students.
12: Blue-Collar Heroes: War Movies and the Working Class.
13: Whistle While We Work: Working-Class Labor in Hollywood Film Musicals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Newsies.
14: Blue-Collar Music.
15: Workingman's Song: The Blues as Working-Class Music.
16: Going “Stateside”: The Beatles, America, and the Meanings of Class.
17: The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon.
18: Performing Working-Class Patriotism: Musical Responses to 9/11.
19: Blue-Collar Sports.
20: Blue-Collar Ballplayers: Sports Movies and Class in America.
21: Disco, Tattoos, and Tutus: Blue-Collar Performances on Wheels.
22: Driving to Victory: NASCAR in American Culture.
23: Natural Bad Boys: The Rise of Mixed Martial Arts and the New Class of Combat Sport.
Volume 1 Index.
About the Contributors.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
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