Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century

Deirdre O’Neill is a working class lecturer and filmmaker. Her forthcoming book Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool explores the way in which film can be used as a means of working class people representing their own lives.Mike Wayne has written widely on the politics and ideology of film, television and the media as well as Marxist cultural theory. His most recently published book is Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014).

"Considering Class is a highly beneficial source of intellect for both learners and researchers of Marxist class theory, especially those whose interests lie with contemporary analyses of culture and media... [It] presents its readers with new viewpoints on class by re-evaluating class theory from a contemporary standpoint and studying its place in culture and media. The book is worthy of commendation in that it successfully reintroduces critical perspectives on class theory to culture and media studies. It therefore proves a valuable collection of scholarly texts for researchers of relevant themes." – Ufuk Gürbüzdal, in: Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (23 January 2020)

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors i1 IntroductionDeirdre O’Neill and Mike WaynePart 1: Class Theory2 Class and the Classical Marxist TraditionJoseph Choonara3 Social Class and EducationDave Hill4 Marxist Class Theory: Competition, Contingency and Intermediate Class PositionsJonathan Pratschke5 Class Segregation Danny Dorling6 The ‘Secret’ of the Restoration: Increased Class ExploitationMaurizio Donato and Roberto TaddeoPart 2: Class and Culture7 Exploitation, Oppression, and EpistemologyHolly Lewis8 Peasants, Migrants and Self-Employed Workers: The Masks that Veil Class Affiliation in Latin America: The Argentine CaseMarina Kabat and Eduardo Sartelli9 Capitalism, Class and Collective Identity: Social Movements and Public Services in South AfricaAdrian Murray10 On IntellectualsDeirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne11 The British Working Class Post-blair Consensus: We Do Not ExistLisa Mckenzie12 From Class Solidarity to Cultural Solidarity: Immigration, Crises, and the Populist RightFerruh Yilmaz13 Recovering the Australian Working ClassTony Moore, Mark Gibson and Catharine LumbyPart 3: Class and the Media14 ‘Everything Changes. Everything Stays the Same’: Documenting Continuity and Change in Working Class LivesAnita Biressi15 Ghettos and Gated Communities in the Social Landscape of Television: Representations of Class in 1982 and 2015Fredrik Stiernstedt and Peter Jakobsson16 Class, Culture and Exploitation: The Case of Reality tv Milly Williamson17 Class Warfare, the Neoliberal Man and the Political Economy of Methamphetamine in Breaking Bad Michael Seltzer18 ‘The Thing Is I’m Actually from Bromley’: Queer/Class Intersectionality in Pride (2014)Craig HaslopIndex