- 153 pages
- English
- PDF
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Media Representations of Retail Work in America
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 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
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author