2020
DOI: 10.1386/macp_00016_1
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Capitalist realism: Glimmers, working-class authenticity and Andrea Dunbar in the twenty-first century

Abstract: This article thinks through how registers of ‘the real’ have operated in working-class representations, from social realism (in film, theatre, drama and soap opera) to reality television and appeals to ‘authenticity’ in publicity and marketing materials for cultural products purporting to represent the working class. It argues that the ubiquity of ‘the real’ in representations of working-class experience is one way in which Fisher’s ‘capitalist realism’ asserts itself. The article argues that experiments with… Show more

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