While, no doubt, a good number of researcher have looked at race
represented on screen, and especially sex/gender on screen,
I'd like to urge publication of articles on representations of class in
visual media. John Berger, in Ways of Seeing, decades ago discussed the
men's suit and its class distinction. Ava Baron explored issues of bodies
and manual laborers in Baron, Ava. "Masculinity, the embodied male worker,
and the historian’s gaze." *International Labor and Working-Class History* 69,
no. 1 (2006): 143-160; and in Baron, Ava, and Eileen Boris. "“The Body” as
a Useful Category for Working-Class History." *Labor: Studies in
Working-Class History of the Americas* 4, no. 2 (2007): 23-43. Recently,
for the first time after decades of publishing my work on the topic, I
managed to get a publisher to include contrasting pictures of mental/manual
working men and their wives depicted in American sitcoms over 70 years
 (June Deery and Andrea Press, Media and Class  Routledge 2017, see pp
42-43.

I'd like to see more exploration of the dimension of class and bodies and
the mental/manual contrast.

Richard Butsch

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 8:53 PM Margaret Shaffer <
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> Screen Bodies
> Call for Papers - General Issue
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> Editor: Andrew J. Ball, Harvard University
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> Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for our forthcoming
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Richard Butsch

Current book projects:
*The Importance of the Social.*
*Homo Faber: Visual Representations of Manual Labor and Laborers in
Twentieth-Century America.*

Author:
*Screen Culture: A Global History *(Polity)
http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9780745653242
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;
*The Citizen Audience *(Routledge)
https://www.routledge.com/The-Citizen-Audience-Crowds-Publics-and-Individuals/Butsch/p/book/9780415977906*;
*and
*The Making of American Audiences *(Cambridge)
https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/media-mass-communication/making-american-audiences-stage-television-17501990?format=PB

Co-editor, with Sonia Livingstone
*Meanings of Audiences* (Routledge)
https://www.routledge.com/Meanings-of-Audiences-Comparative-Discourses/Butsch-Livingstone/p/book/9780415837309

Editor:
*Media and Public Spheres* (Palgrave),
https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230007215
*For Fun and Profit: The Transformation of Leisure into Consumption*
(Temple)
http://tupress.temple.edu/book/3189

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, American Studies, and Film & Media Studies
Rider University, Lawrenceville NJ 08550, USA

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