2019 Annual Conference • Working Class Culture • panel

The Poetics of Labor and Class: Reading, Seeing, and Writing about Working Class Culture

This panel explores the complexities unique to the representation of labor and class in history and film. Considering relevant historical and political contexts—and through the close reading of text and film—this panel seeks to articulate the inextricable relationships between fiction, cinema, and documentary with respect to labor and class in American culture.

Presentations

Reframing Labor: Documentary Poetics and Working Class Politics in the Midwest

Presenters

Julia Madsen

Seeing Rough America: The Mise-en-scene of Socioeconomic Precarity on Film

Presenters

Eric Kennedy

Documentary Necro-Poetics: Coordinating Contradiction in "The Book of the Dead"

Presenters

Thomas Johnson Nez

Session chairs

Thomas Johnson Nez