Mike Wayne
Biographic Data
| ID | 3597819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Wayne |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Wayne |
| SIGNATURE | WAYNE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1285-5976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Acting Class and the Myths of Meritocracy
Our feature documentary The Acting Class (2017) is here contextualised in the context of a critique of the cultural industries as part of the ideology of meritocracy and a resurgence of work around class in the sociology of culture. The Acting Class focuses on the question of class stratification in the UK acting industry. We here review our research on this issue and contextualise it within the scholarly literature on diversity and inequality, t…
Ambivalence in Gramsci's historiography of the Risorgimento
Although Gramsci developed his conceptual methodology out of concrete historical analysis, there is a significant tension between his account of the Risorgimento, which plays into a narrative of Italian exceptionalism, and concepts such as historical bloc, hegemony and passive revolution, which point towards European wide convergence in capitalist state dynamics after 1848. This article shows a de-alignment between Gramsci's account of the Risorg…
Roadmaps after Corbyn
Examination of the UK’s dominant political cultures, social liberalism and national conservatism, battling for hegemony within and between the major parties, and buffeted by economic storms. A sober reckoning with the lessons of Corbynism and hopes invested in an unreformable Labour Party
Nico Baumbach, Cinema/Politics/Philosophy
Nico Baumbach’s Cinema/Politics/Philosophy aims to show readers that recent interventions by philosophers into the study of film can play an important role in re-politicizing film theory following the disintegration of the 1970s paradigm – sometimes called, because of the journal’s influence in shaping it – Screen theory. Baumbach’s main point about the dominant paradigm of the 1970s is that it operated with a rigid division (of labour) between t…
Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century
Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of clas…
Imagining Black America
Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In Imagining Black America , Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from the arrival of the first Africans in Jamestown in 1619 to Barack Obama’s reelection. Races have to be imagined into existence and constantly reimagined as circumstances change, Wayne argues, and as a co…
Beneath the bias, the crisis: The press, the independent media and the Scottish referendum
This article examines the coverage of the Scottish referendum of 2014 by the press in the context of a multi-nation state with diverging political cultures. Evidence of press bias is assessed but the article argues that the more interesting question is why, despite the bias, there was considerable neutrality or even pro-independence views, given that the referendum posed an existential threat to the British state? The article argues that the poli…
Worker Resistance and Media: Challenging Global Corporate Power in the 21st Century
Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives
Marxism and Film share at least one thing in common: they are both interested in the masses.From the introductionFilm remains one of the most dominant cultural forms in the world today. Crossing classes and cultures, it permeates many aspects of our consciousness. In film, perhaps more than any other medium, we can read the politics of time and place, past and present. The history of Marxism has intersected with film in many ways and this book is…
Aesthetics and Class Interests: Rethinking Kant
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Third Text, 28(2), 137 - 148, 2014, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09528822.2014.890788
Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism, and the Third Critique
Is Kant really the 'bourgeois' philosopher that his advocates and opponents take him to be? In this bold and original re-thinking of Kant, Michael Wayne argues that with his aesthetic turn in the Third Critique, Kant broke significantly from the problematic philosophical structure of the Critique of Pure Reason. Through his philosophy of the aesthetic Kant begins to circumnavigate the dualities in his thought. In so doing he shows us today how th…
The Engels Project Mike Wayne and Deirdre O’neill Discuss the Ideas Behind Their Latest Documentary Film, the Condition of the Working Class
Transcoding Kant: Kracauer’s Weimar Marxism and After
Kracauer’s rehabilitation in the 1990s sidelined his Marxist framework of the middle-to-late Weimar era in favour of the then still dominant if decaying paradigms of poststructuralism and postmodernism. It was also silent on the relationship between Kant and Marxism in Kracauer’s work. This essay addresses these weaknesses by arguing that Kracauer transcoded the structure of Kant’s ‘problematic’ around reification into a Marxist framework in the …
Kant's Philosophy of the Aesthetic and the Philosophy of Praxis
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Association for Economic and Social Analysis
Return to Third Cinema? The Case of Listen To Venezuela
U.K. Television News: Monopoly Politics and Cynical Populism
This essay provides a statistical and qualitative analysis of the hierarchical coverage of politics by UK Television news. It finds that there is a rigidly structured hierarchy of political access and focus, whereby the Prime Minister dominates over the cabinet, the cabinet dominates over ordinary MPs, the governing party dominates over the opposition, the three main parties dominate overwhelmingly over smaller parties, and the political elites d…
Television News and the Symbolic Criminalisation of Young People
This essay combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of six UK television news programmes. It seeks to analyse the representation of young people within broadcast news provision at a time when media representations, political discourse and policy making generally appear to be invoking young people as something of a folk devil or a locus for moral panics. The quantitative analysis examines the frequency with which young people appear as main …
Film as a radical pedagogic tool
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Failing the Public: The BBC, The War Game and Revisionist History
James Chapman's recent essay in this journal (2006) offered a revisionist account of the censorship of Peter Watkins's 1965 drama-documentary The War Game. Watkins's film is a richly researched account of the likely consequences and aftermath of a limited nuclear strike on Britain. The BBC banned it from being broadcast for 20 years. Drawing on the BBC's own Written Archives Centre and files held by the National Archives, Chapman argues that the …
DVD Reviews
Ugetsu , (1953) Japan Tout va bien , (1972) France 27 Years Later
Realism: Eleven theses and some elaborations
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Decoding Television: Issues of Ideology and Discourse
Working Title Mark II: A critique of the Atlanticist paradigm for British cinema
This essay explores the economic and cultural subordination of British cinema to Hollywood. In particular it analyses how the subsidiary mode of corporate organization allows Hollywood to drill down into national and regional cultures and talent. It offers a case study of Working Title, a nominally British company and Billy Elliott to show how the subsidiary mode works and with what culturally detrimental effects
Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives
Fetishism and Ideology: A Reply to Dimoulis and Milios
Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (193–218) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Dimoulis and Milios 2004. 2 ‘. . . there is a kind of dissembling or duplicity built into the very economic structures of capitalism, such that it cannot help presenting itself to consciousness in ways askew to what it actually is. Mystification, so to speak, is an “objective” fact, embedded in the very character of the syste…
U.K. Television News: Monopoly Politics and Cynical Populism
This essay provides a statistical and qualitative analysis of the hierarchical coverage of politics by UK Television news. It finds that there is a rigidly structured hierarchy of political access and focus, whereby the Prime Minister dominates over the cabinet, the cabinet dominates over ordinary MPs, the governing party dominates over the opposition, the three main parties dominate overwhelmingly over smaller parties, and the political elites d…
Television News and the Symbolic Criminalisation of Young People
This essay combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of six UK television news programmes. It seeks to analyse the representation of young people within broadcast news provision at a time when media representations, political discourse and policy making generally appear to be invoking young people as something of a folk devil or a locus for moral panics. The quantitative analysis examines the frequency with which young people appear as main …
The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880
Journal Article The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xiii + 226 pp. Map, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access Jay R. Mandle Jay R. Mandle Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 68…
Failing the Public: The BBC, The War Game and Revisionist History
James Chapman's recent essay in this journal (2006) offered a revisionist account of the censorship of Peter Watkins's 1965 drama-documentary The War Game. Watkins's film is a richly researched account of the likely consequences and aftermath of a limited nuclear strike on Britain. The BBC banned it from being broadcast for 20 years. Drawing on the BBC's own Written Archives Centre and files held by the National Archives, Chapman argues that the …
Fetishism and Ideology: A Reply to Dimoulis and Milios
Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (193–218) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Dimoulis and Milios 2004. 2 ‘. . . there is a kind of dissembling or duplicity built into the very economic structures of capitalism, such that it cannot help presenting itself to consciousness in ways askew to what it actually is. Mystification, so to speak, is an “objective” fact, embedded in the very character of the syste…
Beneath the bias, the crisis: The press, the independent media and the Scottish referendum
This article examines the coverage of the Scottish referendum of 2014 by the press in the context of a multi-nation state with diverging political cultures. Evidence of press bias is assessed but the article argues that the more interesting question is why, despite the bias, there was considerable neutrality or even pro-independence views, given that the referendum posed an existential threat to the British state? The article argues that the poli…
Kant's Philosophy of the Aesthetic and the Philosophy of Praxis
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Association for Economic and Social Analysis
Transcoding Kant: Kracauer’s Weimar Marxism and After
Kracauer’s rehabilitation in the 1990s sidelined his Marxist framework of the middle-to-late Weimar era in favour of the then still dominant if decaying paradigms of poststructuralism and postmodernism. It was also silent on the relationship between Kant and Marxism in Kracauer’s work. This essay addresses these weaknesses by arguing that Kracauer transcoded the structure of Kant’s ‘problematic’ around reification into a Marxist framework in the …
Working Title Mark II: A critique of the Atlanticist paradigm for British cinema
This essay explores the economic and cultural subordination of British cinema to Hollywood. In particular it analyses how the subsidiary mode of corporate organization allows Hollywood to drill down into national and regional cultures and talent. It offers a case study of Working Title, a nominally British company and Billy Elliott to show how the subsidiary mode works and with what culturally detrimental effects
Mode of production: New media technology and the Napster file
This essay explores the economic and cultural contradictions of capitalism which new media technology illuminates through its own distinctive prism of material practices. It critiques the technological determinism that accompanied the dot.com boom and shows why the hopes of a new economic paradigm underpinned by new digital technology were unfounded. The essay argues that the category mode of production, which diagnoses the fundamental contradict…
The Tragedy of History: Peter Watkins's La Commune
A Place Frozen in Time
The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860-1880
Journal Article The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xiii + 226 pp. Map, tables, appendixes, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $22.50.) Get access Jay R. Mandle Jay R. Mandle Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 68…
Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900
The Old South in the Crucible of War
Family Video, Oral History and Reflexivity: My Uncle Wolf
Using the author's own family video, Uncle Wolf, this essay is an example of reflecting on one's own cultural practice. It seeks to situate the family video within the institutional contexts and aesthetic debates associated with audio-visual culture. In particular, it reflects on the necessity, the tensions and the possibilities of introducing reflexivity within the audio-visual text while still retaining the ambition of engaging with the referen…
The critical practice and dialectics of third cinema
(2000). The critical practice and dialectics of third cinema. Third Text: Vol. 14, No. 52, pp. 53-66
Problems and Possibilities in Developing Critical Practice
I want to begin by offering a typology of different modes of understanding or interrogating practice — different modes and ambitions of being self-conscious about what it means to understand cultural production. A typology could help clarify some differences in the aims and ambitions of Media Studies courses which incorporate cultural practices and it will help clarify how those aims fit into or contest the cultural industries as they are and as …
Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South
In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner’s jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the community concluded that he had been murdered by three slaves acting under instructions from John McCallin, an Irish carpenter. Now, almost a century and a half later,…
Utopianism and Film
A Violent Peace: Robert Guédiguian's La Ville est tranquille
The Tragedy of History: Peter Watkins's La Commune
Post-Fordism, Monopoly Capitalism, and Hollywood's Media Industrial Complex
This article seeks a dialectical critique of and synthesis between two conflicting paradigms. In exploring the changing structures and global markets of Hollywood's media industrial complex, it draws on, but also critiques, post-Fordist accounts of corporate change and market competition. It identifies the new dominance of the multi-divisional corporate structure and its combination with subsidiary and subcontractor modes of inter-corporate relat…
Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends
Spectres, Marx's Theory of Value, and the Horror Film
Spectrality gives us a unique language to think about Marx's critique of capitalism, namely the latter's metaphysics, its idealism and its peculiar dematerialising materialism, says Mike Wayne
Mode of production: New media technology and the Napster file
This essay explores the economic and cultural contradictions of capitalism which new media technology illuminates through its own distinctive prism of material practices. It critiques the technological determinism that accompanied the dot.com boom and shows why the hopes of a new economic paradigm underpinned by new digital technology were unfounded. The essay argues that the category mode of production, which diagnoses the fundamental contradict…
A Very Dangerous Citizen, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left
Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives
Fetishism and Ideology: A Reply to Dimoulis and Milios
Historical Materialism , volume 13:3 (193–218) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2005 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Dimoulis and Milios 2004. 2 ‘. . . there is a kind of dissembling or duplicity built into the very economic structures of capitalism, such that it cannot help presenting itself to consciousness in ways askew to what it actually is. Mystification, so to speak, is an “objective” fact, embedded in the very character of the syste…
DVD Reviews
Ugetsu , (1953) Japan Tout va bien , (1972) France 27 Years Later
Realism: Eleven theses and some elaborations
Preview this article: Realism: Eleven theses and some elaborations, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/4/6/s2-1.gif
Decoding Television: Issues of Ideology and Discourse
Working Title Mark II: A critique of the Atlanticist paradigm for British cinema
This essay explores the economic and cultural subordination of British cinema to Hollywood. In particular it analyses how the subsidiary mode of corporate organization allows Hollywood to drill down into national and regional cultures and talent. It offers a case study of Working Title, a nominally British company and Billy Elliott to show how the subsidiary mode works and with what culturally detrimental effects
Film as a radical pedagogic tool
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Failing the Public: The BBC, The War Game and Revisionist History
James Chapman's recent essay in this journal (2006) offered a revisionist account of the censorship of Peter Watkins's 1965 drama-documentary The War Game. Watkins's film is a richly researched account of the likely consequences and aftermath of a limited nuclear strike on Britain. The BBC banned it from being broadcast for 20 years. Drawing on the BBC's own Written Archives Centre and files held by the National Archives, Chapman argues that the …
Television News and the Symbolic Criminalisation of Young People
This essay combines quantitative and qualitative analysis of six UK television news programmes. It seeks to analyse the representation of young people within broadcast news provision at a time when media representations, political discourse and policy making generally appear to be invoking young people as something of a folk devil or a locus for moral panics. The quantitative analysis examines the frequency with which young people appear as main …
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