Poverty in American Popular Culture

Essays on Representations, Beliefs and Policy

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Beskrivning

In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war" on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans. Two decades later, President Reagan drastically cut such programs, claiming that welfare encouraged dependency and famously quipping, "Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won." These opposing policy positions and the ideologies informing them have been well studied. Here, the focus turns to the influence of popular art and entertainment on beliefs about poverty's causes and potential cures.These new essays interrogate the representation of poverty in film, television, music, photography, painting, illustration and other art forms from the late 19th century to the present. They map when, how, and why producers of popular culture represent--or ignore--poverty, and what assumptions their works make and encourage.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-17
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9781476664224

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Wylie Lenz is an assistant professor of English in the humanities and social sciences department at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, Florida.

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“Lenz's thesis that purely fictional narratives may influence our view of poverty just as strongly as fact-based ones do is well supported by the scholarship gathered here.”—Journal of Popular Film and Television

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Poverty, Policy, Beliefs and Popular CultureWylie LenzHenry Ossawa Tanner and African American Realist Paintings of Poverty in the 1890sLyrica TaylorNot Picturing Poverty: The New Woman and Nineteenth-Century Periodical IllustrationAnna M. DempseyEarly Film and Child Welfare Issues: Charlie Chaplin’s TheKathleen A. TobinAgnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth and Representations of the SocialMichael MayneSpeaking the Language of the New Deal: Efficiency, Poverty and Economic Security in the 1930s Campaign Against Venereal DiseaseErin Wuebker“The Language of Pictures”: Images of Poverty in New Deal AmericaCourtney L. KisatA Hillbilly, a Bum and an Old Woman Meet a Screwball Redhead: Lampooning the Poor in I Love LucyMark BernhardtPoverty, Opportunity and Art Legacies in Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaKatelynd L. GibbonsPrecarious Mobility: Vagrancy in American Pop CultureWibke SchniedermannMaking a (Third) Space for Learning: Analyzing Urban Education in HBO’s The WireChad William Timm“In Wildness Is the Preservation of the World”: Poverty and Potentiality in Beasts of the Southern WildLauren Riccelli ZwickyA Place to See: Poverty in American Theater, 1935–2015Mary K. Ryan“What You Are About to See Will Make You Question What Matters Most”: Poverty Porn, The Briefcase and the Deserving PoorOwen Cantrell“Welcome to The First 48”: Identity, Delinquency and Reality TelevisionJessica H. ZbeidaAbout the ContributorsIndex