Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Set Introduction.
Blue-Collar Culture Industry: Film, Music, Sport, and the American Working Class.
1: Blue-Collar Film.
2: Blue Collars and Pink Skirts: Female Office Workers in Early and Golden Age Cinema.
3: Striking Women: Gender, Labor, and Working-Class Politics in Film from Salt of the Earth to North Country.
4: Canadian Crossings: Exploring the Borders of Race and Class in Courtney Hunt's Frozen River.
5: Challenging White-Trash Stereotypes: The Question of Class in Bastard out of Carolina.
6: Rednecks in Film: Identity and Power from Deliverance to Cars.
7: Road Work: Smokey and the Bandit and the Trucker Film.
8: City Workers, Country Workers: The Urban and Rural Working Class in Southern Film.
9: Working-Class Children: Disappearing from Contemporary American Children's Films.
10: Reach for the Stars: Imagining the American Dream for Working-Class Teens in Science Fiction Film.
11: “No Free Rides, No Excuses”: Film Stereotypes of Urban Working-Class Students.
12: Blue-Collar Heroes: War Movies and the Working Class.
13: Whistle While We Work: Working-Class Labor in Hollywood Film Musicals from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to Newsies.
14: Blue-Collar Music.
15: Workingman's Song: The Blues as Working-Class Music.
16: Going “Stateside”: The Beatles, America, and the Meanings of Class.
17: The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue-Collar Icon.
18: Performing Working-Class Patriotism: Musical Responses to 9/11.
19: Blue-Collar Sports.
20: Blue-Collar Ballplayers: Sports Movies and Class in America.
21: Disco, Tattoos, and Tutus: Blue-Collar Performances on Wheels.
22: Driving to Victory: NASCAR in American Culture.
23: Natural Bad Boys: The Rise of Mixed Martial Arts and the New Class of Combat Sport.
Volume 1 Index.
About the Contributors.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Blue-Collar Broadcasting: Television and the American Working Class.
1: Blue-Collar Television.
2: Fred, Homer, and Peter: Working-Class Men in Animated Television from the Flintstones to Family Guy.
3: Citizen Bunker: Archie Bunker as Working-Class Icon.
4: The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry as Working-Class Utopia.
5: Blue Collars/White Trash: The Poor White Stereotype in Blue-Collar Society as Enacted in the Beverly Hillbillies.
6: Poor Southern Whites as the Other in the X-Files and Other Recent Works of Popular Culture.
7: Domestic Goddess: Roseanne as Working-Class Icon.
8: Blue-Collar Science Fiction Television: Working for the Future.
9: Tony Soprano, Postmodern Scholarship Boy: Class in the Sopranos.
10: Working the Case: The Wire and Working-Class Cops on American Television.
11: Rescue Me: Working-Class Content, Middle-Class Style.
12: The Folding of the American Working Class in Mad Men.
13: Class and the Representation of Workers in Children's Television.
14: A Class Act: Cast(e)ing in Kid Nation.
15: When the Travel Channel Eats: Class, Identity, and Eating to Excess in Television Food Shows.
16: Everyday Blue-Collar Culture.
17: The Working Class in American Comics.
18: Si se Puede: Liberation Theology and Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign.
19: Jim Bishop's Colorado Castle: A Self-Made Monument to Work.
20: Money in the Ruins: The Conversion of Abandoned Blue-Collar Worksites into Tourist Attractions.
Volume 2 Index.
About the Contributors.
