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In this movie, prisoners are placed in vertical cells which have a square hole in the middle. A platform--initially filled with the finest food--makes its way down all the cells. When the platform is initially loaded, there is enough food for everyone in all the cells--an very nice food at that--but those on the higher floors who receive the food first, just devour it without care for those beneath them. The plot of the movie draws parallelisms to the society we live in, were those at the top of our power systems have disproportionate capabilities and resources and often do not care for those who are most in need beneath them.

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Superstore is a comedy series that is based on the lives of workers within a grocery store. It delves into the hardships, unity, and comedic circumstances individuals while working with the retail field. Throughout the show it shows how these employees of Cloud 9 (the grocery store in which the show takes place, main setting) face challenges in the benefits they receive such low wages, promotions, healthcare, etc. They even show employees forming a union to gain such benefits that they lack.
Another way they showcase the working class is how those with positions of greater authority such as managers gained significantly higher pay and benefits over standard employees, another reason as to why the union was formed.
The final main takeaway of the working class depiction, is Mateo (one of the main characters) being threatened with deportation back to his country as he was not legally allowed to work in America. Throughout the show it shows the struggles he faces to maintain his job and how his co-workers help him in maintaining it as well as helping him in gaining proper status.

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The show Derry Girls is an example of popular culture specifically the teenage girl dream of boys, makeup, music and rebellion. Although set in Northern Ireland in the 1990s during political tension, the girls make light of what is a grave situation making this is a coming of age comedy. To add this, there is also tension between the richer kids and the "poorer" kids who are our main characters.

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The show Baby daddy is a show that follows a party-life bartender who finds a baby at his doorstep that was dropped off by an ex-girlfriend. With the new baby, he now has to adjust his lifestyle to support not only himself but his new daughter.

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Steinbeck, J. (1995). The grapes of wrath. New York, N.Y., Book-of-the Month Club.

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The book The Grapes of Wrath is an example of popular culture that supports a working-class view. It explores the capital-industrial revolution as depicts the abuse and poverty of a family, who served as a symbol of the working class throughout the Great Depression. The book explains working-class ideals through encouraging empathy, friendship, and social justice. It critiques the capitalist system by outlining the challenges that migrant workers faced. (A fantastic movie, and novel)

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Trading Places

I choose this movie because it shows that the rich see us as nothing more than things to be played with.  In this movie a black man (Billy Ray Valentine – played by Eddie Murphy) who is portrayed as a con artist / thief is given the opportunity to be one of the middle-class, as a stockbroker on Wallstreet.  He was provided with a home along with a butler, a wardrobe to reflect the status and money to spend as part of the lifestyle.  On the other hand, a middle-class stockbroker (Louis Winthorpe III – played by Dan Aykroyd) is framed so that he loses his job, status at the country club, home, girlfriend, and position in society.  All of this was orchestrated by a pair of brothers (Mortimer and Randolph Duke – played by Don Ameche & Ralph Bellamy) who are of the elite class and made a bet with each other for $1 to see how the two individuals would react to the change in their social status.  In the end of the movie Billy Ray and Louis were able to turn the table on the Duke brothers by making them poor with the help of the butler and the prostitute who was hired to help frame Louis. This is a perfect example of the elite trying to control the classes below them.

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Mom is an example of working class ideology. The show follows a single mother who works as a waitress trying to make money to support her family. She is a recovering acholic living with her mother who was also a recovering addict. She was trying to support her family while her only income was not much as she was making minimum wage as a waitress.

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The show "The Maid" depicts working class ideology. The show begins by showing her struggles as a recently single mother who has escaped an abusive relationship. In the series, she becomes a maid to those who live luxurious and wealthy lives. She is looked down on by the person she is working for, and when she explains to the individual about how she can hardly afford the cost of living while trying to take care of her daughter, the person is baffled because she has never experienced it before. This show depicts real-world struggles, and the differences between those born with wealth versus those struggling to survive. It also shows how easily they are mistreated in our society.

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The Triangle of Sadness was a best picture nominee at the Oscars in 2023 and it is a perfect example of working class consciousness and class strife. The premise is a bunch of super rich (and helpless) people on a luxury cruise ship that sinks. The movie starts by showing the ridiculous, wasteful, and spoiled nature of the rich, but it turns when the surviving members of the crash are forced to survive on an island. You can imagine that the rich, devoid of work ethic and real-world skills, quickly become powerless. In addition to showing class inequality, the film touches on racial inequality. If you have a strong stomach, I recommend watching this one!

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The menu focuses on a world-class chef with his working-class crew to create the ultimate dining experience for their highly exclusive and elite guests. Throughout the movie, the elite act as snobs and underappreciate the work put on by the kitchen. By the end of the movie, all the elite, rich guests have been murdered by the Chef and the Kitchen. The only guest to survive was Margot, a working-class woman who was allowed to leave, as she understands the working-class experience and is not the intended victim.

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A perfect example to me of a movie the represent class ideology is Snowpiercer as the train is separated by these classes. the paying customer get get the front of the train and get luxury dinner and many other high-class items while the back cart which were the stow away are subjected to small confinements and terrible quality foods. the idea that the train is the last bastion of humanity is a great way of showing the lager differences between the classes and how poorly the lower class are treated compared to other.

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The Hunger Games - The Districts vs. The Capitol

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The Hunger Games - The Districts vs. The Capitol

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The Hunger Games Trilogy depicts a stark contrast between the individual Districts (working class citizens) and the Capitol (elite citizens). Each District is in charge of producing specific resources that all go towards the Capitol. For instance, District 4 produces seafood, District 7 produces lumber, District 11 specializes in agriculture, and District 12 is in charge of mining coal. The trilogy emphasizes that the Capitol is extremely wealthy with great control over the nation, while the Districts are mostly in poverty with limited freedom. In addition, the Capitol lives in extravagance and is seemingly ignorant of the Districts' struggle. This can reflect back on our society where a majority of people are part of the working class with little control over society, while a small group of elite people are wealthy and have the most power in society.

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WALL-E is a movie that critiques the capital-industrial economy as it shows the detrimental effects that consumer culture can have on the lives of humans and the health of our planet. For humans, this movie shows that consumer culture can remove our ability to make any choice over the products we consume. Instead, we simply consume products because we are told to do so. Also, because of intense consumerism, the earth becomes full of garbage and is no longer habitable by humans. In all, WALL-E critiques consumerism and capitalist economy as it shows the negative effects they can have on the health of humans and the planet.

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The movie Erin Brockovich is an example of popular culture that supports a working class ideology. The movie is about a single mother to three children who struggles to find work. Her resume is not the best because she has been raising her kids, so this it makes it difficult for employers to take her seriously. When she finally gets a job with a law firm she is treated differently by the other women in the office because the way she dresses appears lower class. She becomes very passionate about her work and solves a huge case. When their law firm becomes too small for this case they meet with a larger firm. The lawyers at this firm look at them differently because they are lower class. It ends up that they keep the case and she does very well for herself in the end.

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Particularly reflecting on the industrial revolution and the role of Lords and Serfs discussed this week, I think of Downton Abbey  The show not only clearly illustrates the role of the 2 distinct social groups but embodies the Marxist concepts as well. Many of the "downstairs" people see their role as honourable and as fitting. They take pride in their tedious and service-filled days in service of "the family". That King Arthur mentality of those in power being hard at work for the greater good of those below them is again aptly illustrated within the passionate roles taken on by the members of "the family" to preserve the town, save the abbey, and be of service during the great war.

-Marieka M

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The tv show shameless is an example of popular culture that supports a working class ideology as it focus on working - class families. An American family who struggle to make ends meet but they have one goal: make people laugh. This show has a lot in common with other working class sitcom. Frank the father is an alcoholic who spends their money on alcohol as the other family member's fend for themselves physically, financially, and emotionally.

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The TV show "Good Girls" can be seen as supporting working-class ideology through its portrayal of the main characters and their struggles. The show follows three suburban mothers who turn to a life of crime to make ends meet and support their families. The show supports working-class ideology is by highlighting the financial hardships faced by the characters. The women are shown struggling to pay bills, facing job insecurity, and dealing with the consequences of economic inequality. This resonates with working-class audiences who may relate to these challenges in their own lives.

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Left to Right: characters Jonah, Mateo and Cheyenne at work. 

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One of the shows I am currently watching is Superstore. Superstore is a comedy series that follows a group of floor workers and lower management who work for 'Cloud 9', an American big box Superstore company. The show follows how the coworkers perform their jobs, and how they interact with customers and fellow employees. Superstore highlights the problems that minimum wage workers go through in corporate America. Some of the topics the show has covered are how lack of health insurance, lack of maternity leave, and being an undocumented immigrant in corporate America causes hardships for the characters. The show also occasionally shows how the upper management and corporate benefits from the exploitation of its minimum wage workers. Superstore shows the day-to-day life of minimum wage workers and through the use of comedy shows how capitalism can hurt the working class.

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The film Charlie Chaplin demonstrates example of popular culture that supports a working class lifestyle as Charlie has to work in a factory. He is overwhelmed with his factory work and gets overwhelmed to the point where he depends upon side jobs throughout the great depression to be able to provide and support.

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The movie Joker is anther examples of popular culture that supports a working class ideology. Joker depicts how a defenceless working-class kid is transformed into a delighted manifestation of evil whose followers take to the streets, starting fires and rioting in clown masks, as a result of a lifetime of abuse and hatred.

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A working class ideology was shown right at the beginning of the series depicting that everyone is given a career chip. The career chip would determine your life right away once being defrosted. The series would continue to showcase the unsafe parameters that the working class would be stuck doing. Along with this, showing the struggle between the love trope having issues due to money, societal status, maturity and goals they wanted to have accomplished.

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I chose the movie titled "Mean Girls" as it illustrates the conflicts that may arise between the "ordinary" or working class and those who are deemed "popular" or elitist. The movie begins with Cady Horan who was raised and educated in Africa by her parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady gets to experience public school in America (the western world) and quickly discovers what is/ is not socially acceptable amongst students and the different cliques. Cady soon finds herself joining an elite group of students who named themselves "The Plastics". Furthermore, Cady later found herself becoming a "mean girl" and would ultimately do anything to become and remain a part of "The Plastics".

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I chose the movie titled "Mean Girls" as it illustrates the conflicts that may arise between the "ordinary" or working class and those who are deemed "popular" or elitist. The movie begins with Cady Horan who was raised and educated in Africa by her parents. When her family moves to the suburbs of Illinois, Cady gets to experience public school in America (the western world) and quickly discovers what is/ is not socially acceptable amongst students and the different cliques. Cady soon finds herself joining an elite group of students who named themselves "The Plastics". Furthermore, Cady later found herself becoming a "mean girl" and would ultimately do anything to become and remain a part of "The Plastics".

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I chose to highlight the movie Can't Buy Me Love as it depicts the tensions between the working class and the elite class perfectly as it relates to High School students. Ronald so desperately wants to be popular that he decides to pay the captain of the cheer leading squad $1000 to go out with him in hopes that he will become popular. To Ronald, this means eating lunch at the popular table, not being invisible to his fellow peers, not being bullied or picked on and having dates.

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The classic fairytale Cinderella is an ancient example of the working class ideology. In this tale, Cinderella is an orphaned young girl forced to work under her evil stepmother and stepsisters after the death of her father. The fairytale also demonstrates the dangers of ambition and what can happen when you chase your dreams in unsafe ways (as evidenced when Cinderella sneaks out to attend the ball and risks facing the wrath of her stepmother). In the end, Cinderella marries the prince and it is her stepsisters and stepmother who are forced to work for their selves. The reversal of classes here demonstrates how the working class can find their power and overcome adversities in the face of discrimination.

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is a show about two millennials struggling to make ends meet while living in new York. The show showcases the working-class millennial, having the newest smartphone but not having enough money to pay rent. Kimmy works for a boss who flaunts her wealth in front of Kimmy all the time.

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Honestly, the two reviews that have been written so far are unreasonable. Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt is by no means average, poor or unfunny. It shines through in it's originality, tactful balancing of humour and satire and it's absolutely endearing. The premise is strange and does not suggest it's a comedy even for a black comedy it seems like a stretch. A woman escapes a cult after being imprisoned for 15 years and starts a new life in New York City. The pilot begins as the women are being rescued and brought back out to the world after 15 years of imprisonment. It's a very unconventional idea for a comedy yet it exceeds expectations. Ellie Kemper, the subject of this show, is wonderfully quirky, sweet and her performance is enjoyable to watch.

Tina Fey's writing is clearly asserted as the main character, Kimmmy, is a strong, powerful, determined and unbreakable. Co-writer and producer, Robert Carlock, also deserves some credit in this. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is not hidden in 30 Rock's shadow and does not attempt to duplicate results. It works in it's own right and is brilliantly executed. It's tone is gleefully upbeat and light-hearted yet it hints at darker themes and it's implementation of dark comedy is succinct and rewarding. So please don't be so quick to judge. Definitely give it a watch it's worthwhile.

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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV Series 2015-2019) - IMDb

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Honestly, the two reviews that have been written so far are unreasonable. Unbreakable Kimmy Schimdt is by no means average, poor or unfunny. It shines through in it's originality, tactful balancing of humour and satire and it's absolutely endearing. The premise is strange and does not suggest it's a comedy even for a black comedy it seems like a stretch.

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I chose "The Breakfast Club" for my example because the movie explores five high school students, each one from different social classes and high school group/squads. At first, the movie shows how the five students are separated by being 1) the popular, 2) the jock, 3) the geek, 4) the bad boy, and 5) the artist, but at the end of the day, they are all stuck in detention together. Overall, the movie ends up bringing the five students together despite their different social status'.

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The movie Pretty in Pink tells the story of a high school girl that lives on the "wrong side" of the tracks. Andy lives with her father and works in a record store part time while in high school. She wants to go to prom but she doesn't have enough money to buy a prom dress. She is also in love with a boy that comes from an affluent family, he lives on the "right side" of the tracks. The movie depicts her struggles to fit in with society. Andy ends up getting a prom dress from a second hand store and tailors the dress herself. She then has to chose between her friend and her crush. This movie explores the differences between the working class culture and the elite culture.

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The movie Bicycle Thief is an film from 1948.  This movie shows the struggle to work especially during the post world-war ll. The protagonist Antonio Ricci who is a father of one son (Bruno) and married to his wife Maria. Maria sells her family's bed lines so they can buy a bicycle for Antonio for his job. But unfortunately someone steals his bicycle and is unable to attend to his new job. He takes his son to find out who stole his bicycle and brings justice to what has happened to him. The point of this film is to show the social condition that needs a political solution. They show the thieves as inadequate people and how the society is corrupted. If Antonio came from an high class family I'm sure his bicycle would've been retrieved right away and the thieves would be brought to just. But since he is from a low class his troubles and worries are thrown away. The bicycle will bring him finances in order to provide food for his family and send his son to school as well. But at the end of the movie he was not able to find out who stole his bicycle.

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The movie/book Crazy Rich Asians (written by Kevin Kwan) follows the love story between someone of working class (Rachel) and one of the higher class (Nick). Rachel, at first, is unaware of Nick's high class identity but once she finds out the truth trouble stirs regarding on how Nick's family views her. It is mainly Nick's mother who views Rachel as unsuitable to be apart of the family as she does not come from wealth. The movie shows a plethora of themes, one being the divide between low and high class and how those of higher class tend to judge those who are dissimilar to them before getting the chance to know them. This film is a great representation of tension and the fine line that exists between the two classes.

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CBC Gem. (2022). Schitt$ creek: The final season [Photograph]. https://gem.cbc.ca/media/schitts-creek/s06

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An example that comes to mind when I think of working class ideology is the television show Schitt$ Creek. This show follows the Rose family after they lose their assets and wealth and move to a town that they had previously purchased as a joke. They live in a hotel, struggling to make ends meet, while trying to make the most of living within a working class community. This show demonstrates an initial divide between the elite class and middle class individuals, but as the show progresses that divide decreases and they become part of the community.

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The show Roseanne was popular from 1988-1997. The show focuses on Roseanne and her family who were considered to be working class. The show had many episodes which showed the difficulties the family had when it came to paying for bills, being laid off from work and raising their kids the best they could. They did not shy away from showing some characters who would be considered the more elite looking down upon Roseanne and her family, and it usually ended with Roseanne putting them in their place. Some of the storylines made it very easy for people to relate to especially with the closing of factories in towns, difficulties with paying bills, and all the family dynamics.

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In the 1990 film, pretty woman is another example of popular culture that supports working class ideology. In this film, it show cases how the rich, especially the rich men have the authority to dictated how people who are of lower class should be acting.  In this case, Edward a rich business man tells Vivian how to dress and act to match his social class. Another is when Vivian enters an elite store to shop, the people who worked there looked down upon her because of the way she was dress although she stated she had money. They treated her differently because she looked of lower class, but once she was dressed like an elite, the way they treated her became very different. The depiction of someone of the lower class was of Vivian as a hooker, someone who is seen as a bit vulgar and an outcast to society.

This film was able to depict how popular culture depicts the working class ideology.

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The movie Maid In Manhattan (2002), captures the working class ideology by highlighting the elite class and the lower class. In the movie, the wealthy hotel guest mistakes the maid for another guest of the first class hotel. The differences between their social status becomes a barrier that in the end they overcome. The movie highlights the struggles of the working class single mom compared to an elite upper class bachelor who does not have any experience of the struggles.

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The example I have chosen is the 2019 film 'Parasite' which I believe provides great insight into the working class ideology. In this film, the interactions between two families is examined. The upper-class Park family and the lower-class Kim family. The Park family is depicted as privileged and entitled people who are "nice" towards their help. The Kim family, struggling with unemployment and hoping for a comfortable life, end up finding their way into the home and lives of the Park family. Although the film revolves around class through the differences between the rich and poor, money is not the sole focus. For instance, the rich people in this film do not use the word "poor" to describe the class beneath them, instead, they separate themselves from the class that is serving them through the way that they smell. An example of this in the movie is during a scene where Kim and his children overhear Park telling his wife that Kim has a strange smell like those who ride on the subway, and that the smell is so strong that it seeps all the way to the back of their expensive Mercedes Benz. When Kim overhears this comment, he realizes that there is more than just financial differences between them, leaving him with a deep feeling of resentment that sticks with him throughout the film. Overall, I believe this film perfectly demonstrates how popular culture depicts the working class ideology.

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A little bit of an old reference, but Al Bundy from Married with Children is the perfect example of working class ideology and consciousness in a popular television series.

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in various movies, the job of construction workers, professional severs, and electricians are described as low-class and low-income people. Also, it tends to show that they have difficulties in their financial conditions. However, in real society, even if they cannot be rich or cannot earn a massive amount of money, they would not have financial severe difficulties because they are kinds of well-paid jobs rather than receptionists or other general labor workers.