Brittany R. Clark

Media Representations of Retail Work in America (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The retail trade has undergone tremendous changes over the course of the twentieth century in the United States, and media narratives have reflected these changes. Media Representations of Retail Work in America explores representations of retail workers in popular media. Offering close readings of various texts including films, television shows, advertisements, and internet memes, Brittany R. Clark traces the development of the trade as a career opportunity that required a distinct set of skills in the early twentieth century until today, when the job has been deskilled and retail workers struggle with low pay and lack of benefits.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978779457
• Artikelnr.: 74398755

Autorenporträt

Brittany R. Clark is lecturer in the English department at Clemson University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Advertising the Empire: Selfridge Advertisements at the Turn of
the Century
Chapter 2: Cinderella at the Palace of Consumption: Depictions of Retail on
Film in the Early 20th Century
Chapter 3: The White Stuff: Passing Narratives and the Department Store in
Lovecraft Country's "A Strange Case"
Chapter 4: The Oleson's Know Best: Little House on the Prairie's Reflection
of Cultural Distrust in the 1970s
Chapter 5: The Manchild Behind the Counter: Depictions of Retail on Film in
the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
Chapter 6: I Was a Retail Salesperson: An Examination of Two Memoirs About
Working in Retail
Chapter 7: Superstore: A Modern Working-Class Sitcom?
Chapter 8: I Hate My Job (But I Love Tweeting About It): Deconstructing
Short-Form Narratives About Retail Work in Internet Spaces