America has its own sins to atone for in the matter of lower and working-class cultural depictions – long the least visible demographic in American pop culture.
In the case of "Scrappers," in which a couple of workers typically split a few hundred dollars after a hard day's work, it's heartbreaking, a naked depiction of working-class struggle.
Certainly, Jordan can relate to the film's depiction of working-class struggle.
This is the brilliance of the Dardennes' depiction of working-class Belgium, certainly a legacy of their days as documentarians.
Stan Barstow, byname of Stanley Barstow, (born June 28 , 1928 Horbury, Yorkshire [now in West Yorkshire], England died August 1, 2011, Port Talbot, Wales), English novelist who was noted for his unsentimental depiction of working-class life.
The strength of this volume lies in its depiction of working-class life in the 1960s and 70s before market forces and the coming of Thatcher inflicted such damage on the social fabric.
Roseanne's remains a uniquely unfiltered depiction of working-class life, because, as social mobility has decreased over recent decades, the barriers to entry into the industry have been raised.
Though Zhao films Brady, his family, his friends, and his neighbors with empathy and sensitivity, she nonetheless yields to one particular realm of stereotypes: the depiction of working-class characters lacking formal education as terse, verbally retentive, close to silent.
RB Marriott of the Stage found its depiction of working-class Londoners leading desperate, dead-end lives "sensitive" and tinged with "compassion", while the US novelist and theatre critic Mary McCarthy echoed Gaskill in praising its "remarkable delicacy".
The integrity of that depiction of working-class life still resonates, which is why Arctic Monkeys took an Arthur Seaton line - "whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not" - as the title of their first album.
In Gibson's new play, "Placebo" (at Playwrights Horizons, under the direction of Daniel Aukin), a poor work that seems overly influenced, at times, by Annie Baker's depictions of working-class ennui, the authoritative Carrie Coon — who was so impressive as Honey in MacKinnon's "Virginia Woolf" — plays a scientist named Louise.
