Middle-class subjectivity and moral value in popular British screen fantasy.

英国流行银幕奇幻作品中的中产阶级主体性和道德价值。

• 批准号: 2592318
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Brunel University London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2592318
• 关键词: Middle; class; subjectivity; moral; value

Through a written submission and video this research project will analyse and compare British fantasy screen fiction of the 21st century in the Harry Potter films and the recent His Dark Materials television series, interrogating how class coding reproduces ideologies of moral worth under neoliberalism. In a political culture where structural class inequalities are typically disavowed, a rhetoric of individualised identity, personal responsibility, aspiration and entrepreneurship in the 'naturalised' free market predominates. Sociologists like Skeggs, Lawler, Tyler and Littler are generating incisive work on class reproduction and value attribution in contemporary Britain. However, when it comes to media texts, their narrow focus on the analysis of working-class representation in reality television and social realist film marginalises studies of class struggle to the realm of realism and overlooks hugely popular fantasy texts and the middle-class subjectivities they reproduce. This oversight, in combination with a film studies culture that privileges British cinema's realist and historical canon, leaves non-realist and increasingly hybridised genres in need of serious critical attention. By engaging with this gap in the field, this project will generate new understanding of the way British popular film and television culture, in particular the 'imaginative power' of fantasy, contributes to the construction of middle-class subjectivities as the principal embodiment of moral value within a 'liberal-conservative' hierarchy of recognised goodness. The international popularity of the Harry Potter franchise highlights the profound impact of a reliance on a coded language of class within British narratives. This project will use film and television studies for a narrative analysis ofmise-en-scène using Bourdieusien 'capitals' and Barthesian 'codes'. An interdisciplinary approach is necessary to situate case studies in wider discursive contexts. Finally, I will produce a video essay to engage playfully with cultural intertexts and introduce a more personal voice to my analysis.

通过书面提交和视频这个研究项目将分析和比较英国的幻想电影小说的21世纪世纪在哈利波特电影和最近他的黑暗物质电视连续剧，询问类编码如何再现下新自由主义的道德价值的意识形态。在一个通常否认结构性阶级不平等的政治文化中，“归化”自由市场中的个性化身份、个人责任、抱负和创业精神的言论占据主导地位。像Skeggs，Lawler，泰勒和Littler这样的社会学家正在对当代英国的阶级再生产和价值归属进行精辟的研究。然而，当涉及到媒体文本时，他们狭隘地关注现实电视和社会现实主义电影中工人阶级代表的分析，将阶级斗争的研究边缘化到现实主义领域，忽视了非常受欢迎的幻想文本及其再现的中产阶级主体性。这种疏忽，再加上赋予英国电影现实主义和历史经典特权的电影研究文化，使得非现实主义和日益混合的流派需要受到认真的批评关注。通过参与这一领域的差距，该项目将产生新的理解英国流行的电影和电视文化的方式，特别是幻想的“想象力”，有助于建设中产阶级主体性作为道德价值的主要体现在一个“自由保守”的公认的善良等级。《哈利·波特》系列在国际上的流行突出了英国叙事中对阶级编码语言的依赖所产生的深远影响。这个项目将使用电影和电视研究的叙事分析mis-en-scène使用布尔迪厄辛的“资本”和巴特的“代码”。一个跨学科的方法是必要的，在更广泛的话语背景下的个案研究。最后，我将制作一个视频文章，以有趣的方式与文化互文进行互动，并为我的分析引入一个更个人的声音。