Pizza and Housos
Neoliberalism, the Discursive Construction of the Underclass and Its Representation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3612673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Stratton (0000-0001-6787-9388, University of South Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 530-544 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07256868.2017.1363167 |
| OpenAlex | W2761554866 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 20 |
There is limited scholarship about Paul Fenech’s television comedy series and films. What there is tends to focus on Pizza (2000–2007) and place it, and its spin-off film, Fat Pizza (2003), within what has been called the wogsploitation cycle that includes most prominently The Wog Boy (2000). In this article I discuss two of Fenech’s television series, Pizza and Housos (2011–2013), in the context of representations of the underclass. I argue that the discourse of the underclass has evolved as the Other of neoliberalism in a similar way that the dangerous class, what Karl Marx called the lumpenproletariat, was constructed as the Other of industrial capitalism. The characters in Pizza, with their pitiful below-minimum-wage earnings, exist on the borderline of the underclass, while the characters in Housos are immersed in the underclass existence. The film Housos v Authority (2012) is a populist exploration of Australian underclass life
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2021 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |