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Title Class dismissed : how TV frames the working class / a project by Pepi Leistyna ; directed by Loretta Alper ; produced & written by Loretta Alper & Pepi Leistyna.

Publication Info. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Video  P94.5.W68 C53 2005    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (62 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
digital
optical
video file
DVD video
System Details DVD.
Note In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned.
Performer Narrator, Ed Asner.
Credits Camera, Julius Bolton ... [et al.] ; editor, Jeremy Smith.
Note Contains 42 min. of additional interview footage.
Summary "Featuring interviews with media analysts and cultural historians, this documentary examines the patterns inherent in TV's disturbing depictions of working class people as either clowns or social deviants, stereotypical portrayals that reinforce the myth of meritocracy"--Container.
Subject Working class on television.
Working class on television.
Social classes in mass media.
Social classes in mass media.
Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
United States.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Added Author Leistyna, Pepi.
Alper, Loretta.
Asner, Edward.
Media Education Foundation.
Added Title How TV frames the working class
How television frames the working class
ISBN 1932869034
9781932869033