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Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film

By Keith Gandal

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403977925, 9781403977922, 9780230604193
LCC
PS228.S63 G36 2006
Open Library ID
OL22754981M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
866 kB (887279 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
240\239
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

'Rich girl meets poor boy who liberates her then dies.' Or, 'low-life girl is trashed by lower-life boy.' The contemporary middle-class fictions of poverty that inform films such as Titanic and Kids are a far cry from the nineteenth-century genres: rags-to-riches stories and seduction tales. Our fictions of class turn the older tales upside down. By the surprising juxtaposition of recent films and the classic writings and unusual lives of Zora Neale Hurston, Stephen Crane, Henry Miller, and Michel Foucault, the book shocks the reader into a reappraisal of these authors' works and lives, our myths about class, and poststructural theory.

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