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Representation of working class

Eastenders
Cockney accent – stereotypical working class dialect.
Graffiti – connotates a run down city, vandalism, yob culture.
Run down businesses – laundrette/café/ market – represents the poorer end of incomes, self employed businesses.
Strong, dominant female characters – Janine/ Lauren – street confrontation, no shame, not afraid to publicly express feelings, bitchy characters.

Darren has social mobility – trying to improve his standard of living and employability.
Vanessa and Jodie – previously middle class – trying to maintain middle class lifestyle without a steady income.
Arthur – trying to earn a living as his middle class father has lost his job – doesn’t want to work towards better employment; wants money.
Dysfunctional families – Butcher family – Mother in prison, daughter prostitute, son excluded from school, clever daughter.

Brookside
Accent – from Liverpool; stereotypically working class area.
Channel 4’s first soap.
Economic threat – job cuts/ people on dole – usually associated with working class.
Rape/Murder storylines.
Tolerance of homosexuals.
Youth culture – graffiti in houses

Middle class suspicious of working class – living in same estate – supposed threat to lifestyle and possessions.
Housing looks middle class – working class families aspiring for a better lifestyle.
Aimed at a working class audience – can relate to issues discussed in the show.
Decline in industry – reflects social problems at the time – sense of realism.
Aim was to create a programme that reflected Britain in the 1980s.

Old Coronation Street
Theme music – northern brass band
Audience predominantly female
Strong female characters – Ena Sharples/ Barmaid.
Typical working class – spend a lot of time in the pub.
Shop – everything stored behind the counter – insecurities.

The Tanners – loving family, hard up, bad reputation, single mother renown for her affairs.
Son - Dennis Tanner – young, angry, ex-convict, thinks society is prejudice against him, unemployed.
Stereotypical working class family – son and daughter unemployed, not allowed credit in the shop or pub, untidy house.
The Barlows – working class family.
Son – Ken Barlow – ashamed of being working class – snob at university where he has picked up other values – Ken aspires to get away from his working class background.
Family are close – help each other (fixing bike in living room) – Ken is embarrassed by this.

Terraced housing and cobbled streets.
Factory workers – mostly female & a homosexual – stereotypical.
Modernisation – decoration and neat.
Café & pub – stereotypical misé en scene.
Accent – Mancs.
Deals with current issues – financial issues and domestics.
Teenage pregnancy & immigration – current issues.

Strong female characters – barmaids – Becky & Liz – gobby. Liz is an interfering and intimidating lady.
Tolerance to gays – Young lesbians and a gay.
Ethnic groups running shop – stereotypical portrayal.
Tolerance to disabled as well.
Ken Barlow – never escaped his working class background.
Kevin Webster – Mechanic – working class.
Carla – Dominant business woman.

How soaps have changed:
More teenagers actors, dealing with teenage issues.
Diversity in other cultures and sexuality.
Industrialisation offers job opportunities for women.
Aimed at a broader demographic audience.
How soaps have stayed the same:
Dominant female characters still exist.
Deal with domestic and personal problems.
Deal with current affairs.
Maintain their working class background stereotype.

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