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Just a white middle class obsession.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] Britain's class obsession will never cease to amaze me.
Usually, the complaints come from the other side, best typified by Benedict Cumberbatch's risible whinge about typecasting and British class obsession.
But hard times have prompted a revival of tensions between the haves and the have-nots, with some commentators claiming the country's old class obsession is still alive and well.
Neither does the book contain the gothic mystery promised in the subtitle: the story Bailey tells seems instead to be a quintessentially Edwardian one of class obsession, hypocrisy and constipated emotion.
For too long the great British class obsession has led many in the education debate to focus their energies on getting middle-class parents to wind back the clock and send their children to the local comp once more.
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This middle-class obsession with children obtaining grade eight on anything properly musical is something I explore in my novel The Square, a satirical poke at bourgeois existence.
Essentially that's what "Capturing the Friedmans" is all about, the American middle-class obsession with documenting innocuous daily life with eight-millimeter cameras, and now videotape.
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