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Blue Collar Pop Culture Collection
| Call for Papers Date: | 2010-03-15 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-27 |
| Announcement ID: |
174455 |
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Currently soliciting brief proposals (title and synopsis) for essays to be included in an upcoming three-volume collection of essays (under contract to Praeger Publishers. The essays will focus on works of popular culture that either represent the working class or that seem to be aimed largely at working-class audiences. Essays should be 6000-7000 words in length and will be due in January, 2011. The three volumes will focus on (1) film; (2) television; and (3) sports, music, and everyday culture. See full announcement for a preliminary table of contents suggesting the kinds of essays that are being sought.
BLUE COLLAR POP CULTURE
Preliminary Table of Contents
All relevant proposals will be considered, though proposals that match items on the following table of contents will receive special consideration.
(Items with a contributor name following the title have already been assigned to that contributor.)
Volume One: Film
Introduction: Will provide a historical survey of both the representation of the working class in American film and films that seem aimed at working-class audiences.
1. Working the Crowd: Silent Film and the Working-Class Roots of Hollywood
2. Working-Class Heroes: John Garfield, John Wayne, and the Working-Class Movie Star
3. Working the West: The Blue-Collar Cowboy
4. Typing for Dollars: Office Workers in Film
5. In the Trenches: War Movies and the Working Class
6. Poor White Trash: Race and Class in American Film—Lisa Hinrichsen
7. Rednecks in American Film from Deliverance to Cars—Katie Barak and Justin Philpot
8. Road Work: Smokey and the Bandit and the Trucker Film
9. Women and Unionization in American Film—Catherine Chaput
10. Strikes and Labor Unions in American Film
11. Stand By Me: Working-Class Kids in American Film
12. Just a Worker: The Working Class in American Children’s Film
13. Michael & Me: Michael Moore as Working-Class Advocate
14. Blue Collar Ballplayers: Sports Movies and Class in America
15. Firefighters in American Film
16. Coming to Town: The Country and the City in American Film
17. Just the Two of Us: Working-Class Couples on the Run in American Film
Volume Two: Television
Introduction: Will provide a historical survey of both the representation of the working class on American television and television programs that seem aimed at working-class audiences.
1. Honest Joes: Ralph Cramden and the Working Class in Golden Age Television
2. The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry as Working-Class Utopia—Derek Alderman
3. From the Mouths of Babes: The Beverly Hillbillies as Observers of American Culture—April Thompson
4. More Than the Law Allows: The Dukes of Hazzard and Working-Class Transgression
5. Citizen Bunker: Archie Bunker as Working-Class Icon
6. Moving on Up: Leaving the Working Class on American TV
7. Working-Class Virtue: Good Times and the Working-Class Family on American Television—Terrence Tucker and Calvin White
8. Working-Class Nostalgia: Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley
9. Domestic Goddess: Roseanne as Working-Class Icon—Angie Fitzpatrick
10. Fred, Homer, and Peter: Working Class Men in Animated Television from The Flintstones to Family Guy
11. Working Magic: The Working Class in American Children’s Television
12. You Might Be a Redneck: The Blue Collar Comedy Tour on TV
13. Real Jobs: Black Gold, Ax Men, The Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers
14. Laughing at Ourselves: King of Queens and the Contemporary Working-Class Sitcom
15. Working-Class Gangsters: Representation of Class in The Sopranos—M. Keith Booker
16. Working the Case: The Wire and Working-Class Cops on American Television—Timothy Libretti
17. Rescue Me: The Firefighter as Working-Class Exemplar—M. Keith Booker
18. Poor Southern Whites as the Other in The X-Files and Other Recent Works of Popular Culture—Grant Bain
Volume Three: Sports, Music, and Everyday Culture
Introduction: Will provide a historical survey of popular attitudes toward the working class in American culture and of working class responses to those attitudes, focusing on sports, music, and other aspects of everyday culture.
1. Country Boys, Urban Sport: Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, and the Good Ole Boy Baseball Player
2. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Baseball: Lou Gehrig and the Baseball Player as Immigrant Worker
3. Union Label: The Major League Baseball Players Association in American Culture
4. Work Ethic on the Gridiron: Blue-Collar Football
5. Look At That!: Professional Wrestling as Working Class Spectacle
6. Graffiti as Working-Class Culture (Or Not)—Laura Hapke
7. Driving to Victory: NASCAR in American Culture
8. Working for Jesus: Religion and the American Working Class—Matt Towles
9. Coming to America: Immigrants and the American Working Class—Tracey Parker
10. Natural Bad Boys: the Rise of Mixed Martial Arts and the New Class of Combat
Sport—Eoin Francis Cannon
11. Trailer Trash: Trailer Parks in American Culture—Amy Drees
12. The Perils and Pleasures of Extreme Eating: Television Food Shows and Working Class Identity—Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato
13. Elvis Might Be a Redneck: The Working-Class Roots of Rock ’n’ Roll
14. The British Invasion and the Meaning of Class in America—Sandra Dawson
15. Where Were You: Working-Class Patriotism and Musical Responses to 9/11—Bill DeGenaro
16. Good Intelligence from a Hillbilly Base: Ralph Peer, Jimmie Rodgers, the Carter Family and the Blue-Collar Beginnings of Commercial ‘Country’ Music—Jason Gallagher
17. Workingman’s Blues: The Blues as Working-Class Music—Terrence Tucker
18. The Boss and the Workers: Bruce Springsteen as Blue Collar Icon—Ryan Poll
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