[Commlist] New book: Class and Conjuncture in Television, Cinema and Literature

Yiannis Mylonas is happy to announce the publication of his new book 
"Class and Conjuncture in Television, Cinema and Literature":

https://www.routledge.com/Class-and-Conjuncture-in-Television-Cinema-and-Literature/Mylonas/p/book/9781032900889 
<https://www.routledge.com/Class-and-Conjuncture-in-Television-Cinema-and-Literature/Mylonas/p/book/9781032900889> 


This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging 
from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching 
context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 
2008 financial crash. It demonstrates how culture serves as a crucial 
site for capturing the contemporary "structure of feeling", publicly 
mediating the period's pervasive social anxieties, latent aspirations 
and political antagonisms.

Methodologically, the book bridges critical political economy and 
cultural theory, to analyse the environmental, political, humanitarian 
and economic symptoms of the late capitalist crisis as represented in 
culture. Through its dissection of both major and minor works across 
genres (such as satire, horror and autofiction) produced in the centres 
and peripheries of global capitalism, the book highlights how class 
experiences like privilege, precarity and ressentiment are narrativized. 
Findings reveal that while commercial media often reproduce middle-class 
hegemony through ethical but depoliticized critiques of capitalism, 
minor works engage more substantively with proletarian struggles and 
lost revolutionary futures. Underscoring culture’s dual role in 
sustaining and challenging neoliberal ideology, it argues that emergent 
oppositional practices rooted in historical memory offer potential 
pathways for the development of class consciousness.

Bridging theory and praxis, it will appeal not only to scholars 
interested in cultural sociology, literature, and politics but also to 
those in the arts, and to students of media, sociology, cinema, 
literature and cultural studies.


Table of contents:


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

Praise for the book:

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


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 /(Brill, 2019) and editor of /The Industrialization of 
creativity and its limits /(Springer, 2020), and /Class, Culture, and 
the Media in Greece Volumes 1 & 2/ (Palgrave 2024).

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