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

通过书面意见书和视频，本研究项目将分析和比较21世纪哈利波特电影和最近的HIS黑暗材料电视连续剧中的英国奇幻银幕小说，询问阶级编码如何在新自由主义下再现道德价值的意识形态。在政治文化中，结构性阶级不平等通常是被否认的，关于个性化身份、个人责任、抱负和创业精神的言论占据了主导地位。像Skeggs、Lawler、Tyler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因做出精辟的研究。然而，当谈到媒体文本时，他们狭隘地关注真人秀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，而忽视了广受欢迎的奇幻文本及其再现的中产阶级主观性。这种疏忽，再加上一种电影研究文化，使英国电影的现实主义和历史经典享有特权，使得非现实主义和日益多样化的类型需要严肃的批判性关注。通过与这一领域的差距接触，这个项目将产生对英国流行电影和电视文化的新理解，特别是奇幻电影和电视文化对构建中产阶级主体性的贡献，将其作为道德价值在公认的善的自由-保守等级中的主要体现。《哈利波特》系列在国际上大受欢迎，突显了英国叙事中对阶级编码语言的依赖所产生的深远影响。这个项目将利用电影和电视研究，使用布尔迪厄辛的《资本论》和巴修斯的《密码》对《科学的未来》进行叙事分析。为了将案例研究置于更广泛的论述背景下，跨学科的方法是必要的。最后，我将制作一段视频短文，与文化互文进行有趣的互动，并引入更个人化的声音来进行分析。

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.