Class and Contemporary British Culture

by Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi

Book Overview

How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders of the new 'age of austerity'? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day this book investigates the changing landscape of class and reveals...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230240569
• ISBN13: 9780230240568
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"