Streaming privilege: How television teaches us to accept inequality

Streaming Privilege examines how contemporary serial television helps legitimise today’s “new Gilded Age” of extreme inequality. Through sharp cultural analysis, the book reveals popular culture’s fixation on wealth and dynastic families, and how these narratives contribute to sustaining economic divides. Focusing on Downton Abbey, The Crown, Succession and Yellowstone, it explores what today’s most-watched dramas suggest about contemporary attitudes toward privilege and power. At its core ...