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

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Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Centuryoffers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts have contributed to this volume to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.

Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre ONeill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Ylmaz.

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Deirdre ONeillis a working class lecturer and filmmaker. Her forthcoming bookFilm as a Radical Pedagogic Toolexplores the way in which film can be used as a means of working class people representing their own lives.

Mike Waynehas written widely on the politics and ideology of film, television and the media as well as Marxist cultural theory. His most recently published book isRed Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique(Bloomsbury, 2014).