Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Class Theory

Karl Marx-
The Marxist View-
The media is controlled by the ruling classes ( Social grades B and C) and use it to support their power.

Ruling media- white middle class straight men.

Medhurst 1997- They are awful because they are not like us.

Richard Butsch 1992- working class men in media portrayed as 'Incompetent and ineffectual, often a buffoon, well-intentioned but dumb. In almost all working-class series, the male is flawed, some more than others.
Example Homer Simpson. House run by Marge, Woman, demaculising Homer.

Gandal 2007- sentimental rags-to-riches story. Poor boy meets rich girl, poor girl meets rich boy, some sort of social ruin for them.



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