●CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1
●The Significance of Class and Film Representation 1
●British So Realism Tradition 6
●Research Methodology 11
●Literature Review 12
●Structure 20
●CHAPTER II. BRITISH CULTURAL STUDIES ON CLASS
●AND WORKING CLASS 22
●Culture: From Elitism to "A Whole Way of Life" of People 24
●Althusser on Ideology and Gramsci on Hegemony 29
●Stuart Hall and the CCCS 34
●The Marginalization of Class and the Moral Significance for the Study of Class 45
●Identity and Representation 47
●CHAPTER III. CLASS AND WORKING CLASS IN BRITAIN: SOCIOLOGICALAND HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING 51
●Defining and Classifying Class and Working Class 52
●Looking at Class: Britain--A Class or Classless Society? 60
●The Rise and Decline of British Working Class 78
●The "Underclass" and Devaluation 98
●CHAPTER IV. WORKING CLASS IDENTITY IN NEW
●WAVE FILMS 104......
內容簡介
本書共8章，通過文本詮釋和意識形態解析研究50年代至今的英國社會現實主義電影對工人階級身份特性的展示，以此來審視英國工人階級命運的變化。它探討不同年代工人階級題材電影的主要主題，比較和對比銀幕展示的工人階級身份特性的延續和變化，並從英國文化研究視角對變遷加以分析，探究工人階級形像背後隱含的思想意識形態和文化抵抗。
