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Roundtable: Contemporary Representations of Class and Labor in Television and Film

This discussion explores the unique and creative ways that labor and class are articulated in cinema and film. Participants are encouraged to discuss the politics of representation with relation to labor and class as well as consider intersectional approaches to this topic. Particular attention is paid to how these representations function rhetorically and relate to pressing contemporary social and political issues.

Presentations

Concrete Cold Fact? Searching for Sugar Man and the Myth of the Noble Working Class Hero

Presenters

Thomas Grochowski

Sucking the Blood Out of the Working Class: A Socio-Economic Class Interpretation of What We Do in the Shadows

Presenters

Timothy Wotring

Session chairs

Thomas Grochowski