... Blouse) that greatly influenced her views on the American version of the Living Newspaper. The chapter also briefly examines the influence that Brecht, the British Workers’ Theatre Movement, MacColl, Littlewood and the American workers’ drama of the 1930s had on the FTP, thus establishing a transatlantic...

...It considers the problematic relation between 1968 and feminism through the question of male subjectivity. This chapter draws on scholarly and personal accounts that reflect on the partial inability of the worker and student movements to incorporate specific feminist concerns in their struggles...

...Chapter 1 analyzes the representation of the worker figure. This was the class that was created in the Maoist period to develop the nation and serve as the “vanguard” of the Maoist state, but now its members are wretched and are in the process of being replaced by migrant workers (mingong...

...This chapter focuses on the growing number of French and Francophone-Belgian films in which workers commit suicide or attempt to do so, suggesting that they are privileged vantage points from which to view the crisis of neoliberal labour and the possibility of escape from it. It draws on Žižek’s...

...This chapter discusses the sex worker, both male and female, as a signifying subject-object in international naturalist cinema. The prostitute, as s/he is linked with paintings, photographs, and literary narratives of the "fallen woman/man"—a corrupted and corrupting sex worker as sympathetic...