[Commlist] Call for Papers: Journal of Class & Culture (Special Issue: 'Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television')

Call for Papers: Journal of Class & Culture


Special Issue: ‘Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television’


Deadline for submission: 17 March 2023


Expected publication: October 2023


View the full CFP here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-class-culture#call-for-papers 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-class-culture#call-for-papers>


The Journal of Class & Cultureis a peer-reviewed journal bringing a 
cultural dimension to the analysis of class, and a class optic to the 
understanding of culture. This Special Issue follows on from a 
conference in July and focuses on class and contemporary UK film and 
television. Papers are invited that explore the intersection of capital, 
contemporary UK film and TV, and class-orientated research within 
contexts of production, formal qualities and consumption.


Contemporary film and TV in the UK appear to offer at least three 
interrelated problems for the lower socio-economic classes. There is 
imbalance, exploitation and precarity in the industry; perennial 
problems around representation; and the inculcation of neo-liberal 
ideology antithetical to social justice and equality. How might 
contemporary UK film/TV contribute to economic inequality, precarity, 
power and structural imbalance, or foster divide and rule, reconciling 
audiences to neo-liberal competition within myths of meritocracy? How 
might UK film/TV negotiate, consolidate, challenge or reflect the 
neo-liberal moment regarding social class and economic injustice? How 
might UK film/TV navigate, caricature, essentialize, contain and 
regulate class, or otherwise problematize, provide critique and nuance, 
and a progressive vision?


Topics might include, but are not limited to:


  *

    representations, receptions and theorizations of class in
    contemporary UK film/TV

  *

    the mediatory role of UK film/TV in notions of taste, the
    maintenance of distinction, mobility, class consciousness, economic
    capital, cultural capital and social capital

  *

    the relevance of class in film and TV studies, textual and genre
    analysis, production history, and the analysis of ideology/hegemony

  *

    ‘the class ceiling’ and precarious practices in the screen industries

  *

    genres: ‘poverty/property porn’, the ‘hoodie film’, manor house
    nostalgia, etc.

  *

    necessary intersections with disability, ecology, ethnicity, gender,
    national identity, neurodiversity, region, religion, and so on

  *

    problematic masculinity and myths of authenticity

  *

    the entrepreneurial nature, self-management and consumerism of the
    neo-liberal subject in programmes such as The Apprentice, reality TV
    and ‘improvement/transformation’ shows

  *

    neo-liberal (or post-neo-liberal – neo-illiberalism, new
    authoritarianism, surveillance capitalism, and so forth)
    reconfigurations of time/space/control

  *

    documenting and dividing class (the now notorious Benefits Street
    and its ilk), and ‘newsworthy’ class

  *

    the work of pertinent professionals, actors or directors such as
    Andrea Arnold, Jimmy McGovern, Shane Meadows, Ken Loach, Steve
    McQueen and others.


The journal recognizes that culture is inextricably tied into state 
apparatuses and power structures and the dynamics of capitalism. It 
recognizes that class is a contested concept, formulated and understood 
in different ways, but it insists that such debates are worth having 
because class relations urgently need to be understood, critiqued and 
changed.


Any queries please contact the special issue editors Deirdre O'Neill 
((d.oneill3 /at/ herts.ac.uk) <mailto:(d.oneill3 /at/ herts.ac.uk)>) and Jon Baldwin 
((j.baldwin /at/ londonmet.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.baldwin /at/ londonmet.ac.uk)>).


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