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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream working class television class determinism class American dream Curator's Note It's been three years since The Wire  left television and academia still can ...
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  "This is an unstable environment”: Teen Mom 2 and Class

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  Chelsea Bullock Georgia Institute of Technology

  November 16, 2012

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  "This is an unstable environment”: Teen Mom 2 and Class working class teens Teen TV and Pedagogy Teen Television and Pedagogy teen pregnancy reality television MTV class Curator's Note The third season of  Teen Mom 2  premieres on MTV this week, ...
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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  April 18, 2011

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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers working class TV Failure Terriers FX failure Curator's Note One of the taglines promoting FX's 2010 series Terriers read "Too Small to Fail," a reference to the perilous economic status of the central ...