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posted by rm_charbonneau in on Sep 20, 2014 - View profile

Sudbury

One Struggle Movie Afternoon


2:00pm
- 3:30pm
Saturday September 27 2014

Venue: Main Library
Address: 74 Mackenzie Street, Meeting Room #1 Downstairs
Cost: Free
Accessibility: Yes

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Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class (62 minutes)

Class Dismissed navigates the steady stream of narrow working class representations from American television's beginnings to today's sitcoms, reality shows, police dramas, and daytime talk shows.

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.

Class Dismissed breaks important new ground in exploring the ways in which race, gender, and sexuality intersect with class, offering a more complex reading of television's often one-dimensional representations. The video also links television portrayals to negative cultural attitudes and public policies that directly affect the lives of working class people.

 

 

Organizer: Rachael Charbonneau rachaelcharbonneau@vianet.ca or 705-670-1982

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About the Sudbury Working Group

The Sudbury working-group of The Media Co-op was formed to create independent media in the North, to speak to our issues and outlooks on our communities as well as the world around us. Independent media provides an avenue for people who are wishing to gain critical perspective on the issues that matter most to us, and to give a voice to those people and stories that you won't find in the mainstream media.

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