directed writing assignment

Directed Writing Assignment #1

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

For this assignment, you need to view the film

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working

.

You can also watch it here:

https://ufvca.kanopy.com/video/class

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dismissed

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0

1.

Present and critique

the definitions for

“

class

” given in the video

?

2.

What was

the role of advertising in redefining the American dream?

3.

This film is now 15 years old. Do you think the division between classes, for example the

elite class and the working class, has grown or shrunk in that time? Please give examples

to support

your position.

4.

In North American culture, people profess to believe in the notion of the value of hard

work and ultimately working your way up in society. Yet it also seems that the “working

class” are seen as failures. How would you explain this

contradiction and what do you

think about it?

Directed Writing Assignment #1

Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class

For this assignment, you need to view the film Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working.

You can also watch it here: https://ufvca.kanopy.com/video/class-dismissed-0

1. Present and critique the definitions for “class” given in the video?

2. What was the role of advertising in redefining the American dream?

3. This film is now 15 years old. Do you think the division between classes, for example the

elite class and the working class, has grown or shrunk in that time? Please give examples

to support your position.

4. In North American culture, people profess to believe in the notion of the value of hard

work and ultimately working your way up in society. Yet it also seems that the “working

class” are seen as failures. How would you explain this contradiction and what do you

think about it?