Moore's representation of the working class

[joanna bujes]

At 03:46 PM 04/08/2002 -0400, Gordon wrote:
>As a literally working-class person, I find working-class
>slobs, overweight, wearing baseballs hats, to be an embarrassing
>affectation or imposition.  Many working-class persons are of
>average or even less than average weight, dress carefully or
>even well, and choose a variety of head coverings, including
>none at all.

Of course, of course. But the working class is represented in the media in 
exactly the way that Moore presents himself. There is always the subtext 
that the poor are poor because they have bad taste and that the well to do 
have the right to enjoy their goodies because they are more aesthetic.

At any rate, check out any daytime "working-class" talk/sensation show a-la 
Jerry Springer and you will see these exact stereotypes being paraded in 
front of you.


>  I suspect Moore differs from the run of the
>Left by being entertaining for the usual reasons: imagination,
>sense of timing, emotional aim, art in general.

He is entertaining, but his "leftist" politics never struck me than being 
anything more than isolationist and reformist.

His outrageousness is less about radical change than it is about a kind of 
street theater that allows the working man to give the finger to whoever...

If he's evolved since the last time I witnessed his work, I'd be glad to 
hear about it.

Joanna