Class and Conjuncture in Television, Cinema and Literature

Yiannis Mylonas is Associate Professor in Media and Culture at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, in Moscow. He is the author of The “Greek Crisis” in Europe: Race, Class and Politics and editor of Class, Culture, and the Media in Greece Volumes 1 & 2 (2024).

• 1. Crisis Conjuncture, Culture and Politics Part I: Conjuncture, Culture and Critique 2. Crisis and Class 3. Hegemony and Culture Part II: Class Contexts in Popular TV and Cinema 4. Narrating Class in Film and TV 5. Spectacles of Privilege and Alienation 6. Precarity, Biopolitics and Abjection Part III Class, Identity and Politics in Literary Genres 7. Prolegomena to Part III 8. Transclass Subjects 9. Negativity and Becoming 10. Conclusions: Class and Cultural Politics

'This ambitious work makes a significant contribution to radical political theory and media studies. It connects working-class experience beyond narrow economic terms to wider questions of media, environment, and public life. The analysis is explicitly political, providing the theoretical tools to link aesthetic forms with concrete historical, social, and cultural realities. It engages with the working class not merely as an economic category, but as a living social force shaped through the dialectical interaction of experience, cultural narratives, and material conditions. Rejecting the current academic drift toward subjectivism, identity politics, and anti-empiricism, it focuses attention on material politics—it’s essential reading for anyone, inside or outside the academy, interested in forms of politics too often ignored or suppressed in contemporary scholarship.'Dr Deirdre O'Neill, lecturer at Hertfordshire University