The Acting Class and the Myths of Meritocracy

Deirdre O'Neill; Mike Wayne

doi:10.3366/jbctv.2022.0601

The Acting Class and the Myths of Meritocracy

Deirdre O'Neill, Mike Wayne

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Our feature documentary The Acting Class (2017) is here contextualised in the context of a critique of the cultural industries as part of the ideology of meritocracy and a resurgence of work around class in the sociology of culture. The Acting Class focuses on the question of class stratification in the UK acting industry. We here review our research on this issue and contextualise it within the scholarly literature on diversity and inequality, the creative industries and the broader re-configurations of the political economy of British capitalism.
We also discuss the importance of the interview in creative practice research as a way of democratising knowledge production and socialising experience.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-21
Number of pages	21
Journal	Journal of British Cinema and Television
Volume	19
Issue number	1
Early online date	1 Dec 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2022.0601
Publication status	Published - 2 Jan 2022

Keywords

Meritocracy, acting, class
Cultural industries
Meritocracy
Acting
Diversity
The acting class
Class
New labour
Interviews
Neoliberalism

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