Keith Gandal's Theory ( 2007 ) states that Lower class people are portrayed to be "Cultrural other" Through fashions that deviate from the middle and upper classes.
Andy Medhurst ( 1998 ) theory: " they are awful because they are not like us," ( the us is the middle class in media )
Richard Butsch ( 1992 ) said that working class males in the media are oresented as - " incompetent and ineffectual, often a baboon, well-intentioned but dumb. in almost all working class series, the male is flawed, some more than others."
Keith Gandal ( 2007 ) said that the target audience, of the t.v drama, are drawn toward "sentimental rags-to-riches story" because they like to think of poor people making it big and they hope they could do it if they had money.
Downton Abbey's poster has a lot of elements in it that could show that the people in the program are of a higher class. One of the more obvious of these elements are the costumes of the characters in the poster. They are mostly all higher classed clothes except the maid in the background of the characters who is lower class but still higher up in the work ladder.
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