This article examines the significant changes in the curation of artists’ film and video that occurred at Tate from the mid-1990s. The events taking place in this publicly funded museum, which holds the United Kingdom’s national collection of modern and contemporary art on behalf of the state, are weaved together with the development of the advocacy work in favour of artists’ film and video by US collectors Pamela and Richard Kramlich. The analysis aims to better define the role of private global economic capital in shaping curatorial approaches within state-funded national institutions and, in turn, within the distinction-making processes that lead to social reproduction. Attention is given to how artists’ film and videos, despite their often progressive content and ephemeral nature, in their passage from cinema/television to the gallery, have not escaped the distinction-making role fulfilled by other more traditional art forms, thus contributing to the persistence of class distinctions.
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Play for Today (PfT) (1970–84) was regarded as the BBC’s flagship strand of single television plays, largely set in contemporary Britain in geographically diverse settings. This article analyses four PfTs from 1975 to 1978 centred on house parties for their representations of class, taste and gender: The Saturday Party (1975), Tiptoe through the Tulips (1976), Abigail’s Party (1977) and Scully’s New Year’s Eve (1978). The article examines the creative input of writers, actors and the overlooked labour of production designers who created these plays’ human spaces within the BBC’s studios. Aspects of set dressing that are analysed include wallpaper, curtains, furniture, reproductions of artworks and props. Analysis is informed by an interview with Moira Tait, a BBC production designer. BBC designers created vividly realistic impressions of contemporary life, which represented structures of feeling in the changing Britain of 1975–78, where increasing home ownership, pleasure and women’s desire for autonomy were pivotal trends.
Play for Today（PfT）（1970-84 年）被认为是英国广播公司（BBC）单个电视戏剧的旗舰剧目，这些剧目大多以当代英国为背景，地域背景各不相同。本文分析了 1975 年至 1978 年期间以家庭聚会为中心的四部 PfT 作品，探讨了它们对阶级、品味和性别的表现：周六派对》（1975 年）、《踮起脚尖穿过郁金香》（1976 年）、《阿比盖尔的派对》（1977 年）和《斯卡利的新年夜》（1978 年）。文章研究了编剧、演员的创造性投入，以及被忽视的制作设计师的劳动，他们在 BBC 工作室内创造了这些戏剧的人文空间。分析的布景包括墙纸、窗帘、家具、艺术品复制品和道具。分析参考了对 BBC 制片设计师 Moira Tait 的采访。英国广播公司的设计师们创造了生动逼真的当代生活印象，这些印象代表了 1975-78 年不断变化的英国的情感结构，在当时，越来越多的人拥有自己的住房、享乐和女性对自主的渴望成为了关键趋势。
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The BBC’s Bergerac (1981–91) premiered less than a week after ITV’s Brideshead Revisited, which codified the core elements of heritage productions. Heritage and preservation were subjects of contentious cultural and political debate during Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister, which largely coincided with Bergerac’s run. While its case-of-the-week stories offer little generic innovation for the police procedural, Bergerac’s content and visual style anticipate the backlash to 1980s–90s heritage productions that emerges near the end of the decade. Jersey’s history, Offshore Financial Center status and its idiosyncratic relationship to the United Kingdom make it ideal for exploring intense scepticism towards unfettered capitalism, the privileges of wealth and the need for a more inclusive definition of heritage, one that accounts for people of economically marginalized status, which, on Jersey, tends to be anyone who is not a millionaire. Practically every episode of Bergerac concentrates on wealthy lifestyles, class disparity and action located at stately country houses. The goal, though, is not to romanticize them, but to critique them through its disapproving protagonist, Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac. Bergerac operates as a polemic against wealth, consumption and Thatcherism. In doing so, it consistently advocates for a less exclusive definition of ‘heritage’ that challenges the one associated with Thatcher, lavish television adaptations, like Brideshead, and Merchant-Ivory’s films.
{"title":"Bad manors: Bergerac as anti-heritage polemic","authors":"Emily Hoffman","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00035_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00035_1","url":null,"abstract":"The BBC’s Bergerac (1981–91) premiered less than a week after ITV’s Brideshead Revisited, which codified the core elements of heritage productions. Heritage and preservation were subjects of contentious cultural and political debate during Margaret Thatcher’s time as prime minister, which largely coincided with Bergerac’s run. While its case-of-the-week stories offer little generic innovation for the police procedural, Bergerac’s content and visual style anticipate the backlash to 1980s–90s heritage productions that emerges near the end of the decade. Jersey’s history, Offshore Financial Center status and its idiosyncratic relationship to the United Kingdom make it ideal for exploring intense scepticism towards unfettered capitalism, the privileges of wealth and the need for a more inclusive definition of heritage, one that accounts for people of economically marginalized status, which, on Jersey, tends to be anyone who is not a millionaire. Practically every episode of Bergerac concentrates on wealthy lifestyles, class disparity and action located at stately country houses. The goal, though, is not to romanticize them, but to critique them through its disapproving protagonist, Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac. Bergerac operates as a polemic against wealth, consumption and Thatcherism. In doing so, it consistently advocates for a less exclusive definition of ‘heritage’ that challenges the one associated with Thatcher, lavish television adaptations, like Brideshead, and Merchant-Ivory’s films.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"4 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140355506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Bull, Paul Andrew Williams (dir.) (2021), UK: Ingenious Media, Particular Crowd, Teashop Productions, Signature Films and Giant Productions
回顾：公牛》，保罗-安德鲁-威廉姆斯（导演）（2021 年），英国：Ingenious Media、Particular Crowd、Teashop Productions、Signature Films 和 Giant Productions。
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Police and crime dramas are one of the most popular forms of TV entertainment in Britain. I first show that over the course of the past few decades, policing and surveillance has become more invasive than ever before. These phenomena are strongly tied to new forms of neo-liberalism and capitalism that encourage increasingly individualistic and fragmented societies. Yet, data shows that trust in the police is high, regardless of class background: Why might this be? I turn to depictions of surveillance and policing in British crime drama, in particular, the recently highly acclaimed Happy Valley. Whilst a well-written, heart-warming and satisfying TV series, I point to several themes that illustrate how British neo-liberal societal decay, policing and surveillance culture might be apparent. Police are presented as capable of filling the void left by the neo-liberal decimation of public services and the accompanying loneliness of intense individualism in poorer towns and cities.
{"title":"Policing, surveillance capitalism and the Great British love affair with crime drama in Happy Valley","authors":"Sally Joy Bonsall","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00037_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00037_1","url":null,"abstract":"Police and crime dramas are one of the most popular forms of TV entertainment in Britain. I first show that over the course of the past few decades, policing and surveillance has become more invasive than ever before. These phenomena are strongly tied to new forms of neo-liberalism and capitalism that encourage increasingly individualistic and fragmented societies. Yet, data shows that trust in the police is high, regardless of class background: Why might this be? I turn to depictions of surveillance and policing in British crime drama, in particular, the recently highly acclaimed Happy Valley. Whilst a well-written, heart-warming and satisfying TV series, I point to several themes that illustrate how British neo-liberal societal decay, policing and surveillance culture might be apparent. Police are presented as capable of filling the void left by the neo-liberal decimation of public services and the accompanying loneliness of intense individualism in poorer towns and cities.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140354501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
An interview with Sam Friedman on notions in the media (and wider) industries of the myth of meritocracy, privilege mistaken as talent, the class ceiling and class pay gap.
{"title":"The myth of meritocracy: An interview with Sam Friedman","authors":"Jon Baldwin","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00039_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00039_7","url":null,"abstract":"An interview with Sam Friedman on notions in the media (and wider) industries of the myth of meritocracy, privilege mistaken as talent, the class ceiling and class pay gap.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"181 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140783451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This editorial explores the ethical and ideological questions involved in dealing with questions of class. It considers questions of perception and representation in relation to class and academic research. Paying particular attention to the specific positionality of the working-class academic it asks if it is possible for academics from working-class backgrounds to have an insight that those academics from more privileged backgrounds might not have access to.
{"title":"It’s not research: It’s intellectual activism!","authors":"Deirdre O’Neill","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00019_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00019_2","url":null,"abstract":"This editorial explores the ethical and ideological questions involved in dealing with questions of class. It considers questions of perception and representation in relation to class and academic research. Paying particular attention to the specific positionality of the working-class academic it asks if it is possible for academics from working-class backgrounds to have an insight that those academics from more privileged backgrounds might not have access to.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"87 6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130312252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This personal essay explores the social, philosophical and ethical issues that arise when individuals and groups self-identify as a particular class. The broadening of what class is understood as through various academic and creative disciplines has also opened up questions and problems that need addressing. Drawing on sociology, environmental, evolutionary and social psychology, I unpack different markers of class and identity, their interplay and interconnections, and consider the fragmentation of class-specific cultures and communities. These ideas are interrogated through personal reflection, literary criticism and with reference to popular culture to appraise the ways class focus has shifted and the obstacles arising in its wake.
{"title":"A class act: The problem with ‘identifying’ into a class","authors":"R. Francis","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00020_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00020_1","url":null,"abstract":"This personal essay explores the social, philosophical and ethical issues that arise when individuals and groups self-identify as a particular class. The broadening of what class is understood as through various academic and creative disciplines has also opened up questions and problems that need addressing. Drawing on sociology, environmental, evolutionary and social psychology, I unpack different markers of class and identity, their interplay and interconnections, and consider the fragmentation of class-specific cultures and communities. These ideas are interrogated through personal reflection, literary criticism and with reference to popular culture to appraise the ways class focus has shifted and the obstacles arising in its wake.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121969973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this study was to explore the early lived experiences that some Mexican American students utilize to further their education in a community college in Oregon, United States. The research questions for the study were ‘What experiences (personal, educational, familial, etc.) influenced your decision to pursue a college education?’ and ‘How has community college served as a tool for empowerment to further your education?’ Through testimonio we explored the lived experiences of Mexican descent students. Each participant was interviewed; all data were recorded, then transcribed for themes. The findings that overlapped across student testimonios were early lived struggles, memories of K-12 and community college empowerment which highlighted the importance for students in community college to revisit their early socialization. The authors advise that in furthering the community college pathway, self-reflexive methodologies be incorporated that cultivate educational resilience and transformational resistance in the transfer of Mexican descent students onto four-year universities.
{"title":"A testimonio of trials, tribulations and hope: Community college as pathway to a four-year university","authors":"Jesus Jaime-Diaz, S. Dubkin-Lee","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00022_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00022_1","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to explore the early lived experiences that some Mexican American students utilize to further their education in a community college in Oregon, United States. The research questions for the study were ‘What experiences (personal, educational, familial, etc.) influenced your decision to pursue a college education?’ and ‘How has community college served as a tool for empowerment to further your education?’ Through testimonio we explored the lived experiences of Mexican descent students. Each participant was interviewed; all data were recorded, then transcribed for themes. The findings that overlapped across student testimonios were early lived struggles, memories of K-12 and community college empowerment which highlighted the importance for students in community college to revisit their early socialization. The authors advise that in furthering the community college pathway, self-reflexive methodologies be incorporated that cultivate educational resilience and transformational resistance in the transfer of Mexican descent students onto four-year universities.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133091863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article considers the ways in which a far-from-neutral ecology of educational technology serves to further marginalize minoritarian knowledges. A persuasive push towards increased technology use is considered as a result of capitalist EdTech promotion of commodities. This challenges concepts of technology as an emancipating presence that acts neutrally in concerns over social justice. The article includes discussion around the ways in which knowledge itself is framed by the technologies that are used to share it. The culmination of the article is the presenting of alternatives that allow technology to be conceptualized as a means of emancipating knowledges and encouraging diversity of who creates knowledge and how this is shared and developed using technology.
{"title":"Class dismissed: The application of popular education to create digital spaces of working-class emancipation beyond restrictive formal education practices","authors":"Peter Shukie","doi":"10.1386/jclc_00021_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jclc_00021_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the ways in which a far-from-neutral ecology of educational technology serves to further marginalize minoritarian knowledges. A persuasive push towards increased technology use is considered as a result of capitalist EdTech promotion of commodities. This challenges concepts of technology as an emancipating presence that acts neutrally in concerns over social justice. The article includes discussion around the ways in which knowledge itself is framed by the technologies that are used to share it. The culmination of the article is the presenting of alternatives that allow technology to be conceptualized as a means of emancipating knowledges and encouraging diversity of who creates knowledge and how this is shared and developed using technology.","PeriodicalId":309811,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Class & Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115886273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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