Mass media portrayals of the middle class

novel by Gustave Flaubert (1857)

fictional character from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

American sitcom television series (2009–2018)

, literally "petty bourgeois film" or "lower middle class film", is a genre of Japanese realist films which focus on the everyday lives of ordinary or middle class people. An alternate term for the is the pseudo-Japanese word , literally "common people drama", which had been invented by Western film scholars. The term as a definition of a specifically Japanese film genre presumably first appeared in 1932 in articles by critics Yoshio Ikeda and Ichiro Ueno.

1969 film by Raj Khosla

American comedy television series

2021 film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner

2021 American television series

collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author

1994 novel by Rick Moody