Saër Maty Bâ, Guest Editor
Summary Notes
The essays for December 2013 are devoted to a critical, analytic engagement
with varied ways in which ‘Film’ intersects with ‘Labor’, and ‘Migration’.
Approaches from the perspective of activist filmmaking, cultural/film
journalism, screen-media academics and independent scholars, identify how
these uneven intersections operate in the 20th and 21st Centuries, as well
as their geo-political impact on cultures and cinemas as varied as Swedish,
French, Brazilian, and Australian. The Working Class, and Labor, constitute
an overarching feature of, and preoccupation in, the essays which, overall,
articulate their theses through issues such as: the figure of the migrant;
gender; race, and ethnicity; trade unionism; film/cinema as genre;
re-thinking film (Studies, theories, practices); and
radical/Marxist/Marxian readings.
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
When Labor and Migration Dis-Place Film: Sketch of an Idea (pages
449–456)
Saër Maty Bâ, independent researcher and writer, UK
Class, Ethnicity, and Immigration in Sweden: Two Films, Two
Strategies (pages 457–470)
Daniel Lindvall, Editor-in-Chief, Film International
Aimless Roam: The Worker as a Permanent Intruder in Brazilian Cinema
(pages 471–486)
Alfredo Suppia, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Brazil
The Condition of the Working Class: Representation and Praxis (pages
487–503)
Mike Wayne and Deirdre O'Neill, Inside Film, UK
Roll Out the Red Carpet: Australian Nurses on Screen (pages 505–523)
Cathy Brigden (RMIT University, Australia) and Lisa Milner (SC University,
Australia)
Class Struggle and Religious Difference in the Workplace: The
Politics of Representing Islam in Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche's Dernier maquis
(2008) (pages 525–536)
Will Higbee, University of Exeter, UK
COMMENTARY
Central Labor Councils: A Vehicle for Building Labor Union/Community
Alliances?(pages 537–542)
Bill Fletcher Jr., The Institute for Policy Studies, USA
BOOK REVIEWS
The Emancipated Spectator – By Jacques Rancière; Chávez: The
Revolution Will Not be Televised: A Case Study of Politics and the Media –
By Rod Stoneman (pages 543–551)
Vian Bakir, Bangor University, Wales
Migration in Contemporary Hispanic Cinema – By Deveny and Thomas G.
(pages 551–553)
Natália Pinazza, Birkbek College, University of London
Migration Documentary Films in Post-war Australia – By Liangwen Kuo
(pages 553–555)
Steve Presence, University of Bristol, UK
Mexico, Nation in Transit: Contemporary Representations of Mexican
Migration to the United States – By Christina L. Sisk (pages 555–558)
Mariano Paz, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Class Unknown: Undercover Investigations of American Work and Poverty
from the Progressive Era to the Present – By Mark Pittinger (pages 558–560)
Laura Hapke, New York City College of Technology
La lotta di classe dopo la lotta di classe. Intervista a cura di Paola
Borgna – By Luciano Gallino (pages 560–563)
Mauro Stampacchia, University of Pisa, Italy
Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the
Transformation of North America – By Richard Roman and Edur Velasco Arregui
(pages 563–566)
Paul Bocking, York University, Canada
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American
Empire – By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin (pages 566–571)
Paul Bocking, York University, Canada
Murder of a Post Office Manager – By Paul Felton (pages 571–573)
Leo Parascondola, William Paterson University, USA