Michael Wayne

Michael has been an academic most of his working life. In part this is because studying film at the North London Polytechnic in the mid-1980s was a revelation to him in so far as it simultaneously provided not just an education in film but a political framework with which to understand the world around him. That connection between the study of a medium as a medium through which to learn about the world, remains central to his work as a teacher and researcher. 

Teaching Activity

He is the convenor of the MA in Documentary Practice. The MA has a terrific team of academic and professional filmmakers working on it making it a successful and popular programme. The wide diversity of professionals coming in to teach on the programme makes it a logistically challenging but rewarding event each year. He also teaches Political Film and Video Practice on the undergraduate programme. He is interested in supervising Ph.D students in practice based research (documentary especially), British television studies, especially work with an audience studies dimension, popular British and contemporary Hollywood film, political filmmaking and Marxist cultural and media theory.

He has published numerous book chapters and essays in journals. Some of the more recent work is listed here:

2011: ‘Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Politics of New Media Technology in The Frankfurt School Revisited, Essays on Media and Culture, (ed) David Berry

2011: (with Deirdre O’Neill) ‘Form, Politics and Culture: A Case Study of The Take, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, and Listen To Venezuela’ in NeolIberalism and Global Cinema, Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, (eds) Jyostna Kapur and Keith B. Wagner,) Routledge.

2009: ‘British Neo-Noir and Reification: Croupier  and Dirty Pretty Things’ in British Neo-Noir’ (eds) Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, Greg Tuck, Wallflower Press.

2009: (with Craig Murray) ‘UK Television News: Monopoly Politics and Cynical Populism’ in Television and New Media. Vol.10 (5).

2008: (with Lesley Henderson, Craig Murray, Julian Petley) ‘Television News and the Symbolic Criminalisation of Young People’ in Journalism Studies Vol.9, (1).

2007: ‘Theses on Realism and Film’ in International Socialism Journal, no.116 (available online at: http://www.isj.org.uk/)

2007: ‘Failing the Public: The BBC, The War Game and Revisionist History’ in Journal of Contemporary History, vol.42, no.4.

2006: "The Performing Northern Working Class in British Cinema: Cultural Representation and its Political Economy ” in Quarterly Review of Film and Video  vol.23, no.4.

2006: 'Working Title Mark II: A Critique of the Atlanticist Orientation of British Cinema' in International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, vol.2., no.1.

2005: 
’Fetishism and Ideology Historical Materialism Vol. 13. No.3

2005: “Jameson, Postmodernism and the hermeneutics of paranoia” Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives (ed) Mike Wayne, Pluto Press.

2005: “Spectres and Capitalism/Spectacle and the Horror Film” in Spectacle of the Real (ed) Geoff King, Intellect Books.

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) WAYNE, M., Kant's Philosophy of the Aesthetic and the Philosophy of Praxis, Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture and Society 24 (3) : 386- 402

(2010) O'Neill, D. and Wayne, M., Return to third cinema? The case of Listen To Venezuela, Film International 8 (1) : 26- 33

(2009) Wayne, M., Television news and young people, Sociology Review 19 (1)

(2009) Wayne, M. and Murray, C., UK television news: monopoly politics and cynical populism, Television and New Media 10 (5) : 416- 433

(2008) Wayne, M., Henderson, L., Murray, C. and Petley, J., Television news and the symbolic criminalisation of young people, Journalism Studies 9 (1) : 75- 90

(2007) WAYNE, M., Theses on Realism and Film, International Socialism Journal (116)

(2007) WAYNE, M., Failing the Public: The BBC, The War Game and Revisionist History, Journal of Contemporary History 42 (4)

(2007) WAYNE, M., Monopoly politics and television news in the, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 3 (2)

(2006) Wayne, M., Working Title Mark II: A critique of the Atlanticist paradigm for British cinema, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 2 (1) : 59- 73

(2005) Wayne, M., Fetishism and ideology: A reply to Dimoulis and Milios, Historical Materialism 13 (3) : 193- 218

(2003) Wayne, M., Surveillance and class in Big Brother, RADICAL PHILOSOPHY (117) : 34- 42

Book Chapters

(2012) WAYNE, M., Hans Magnus Enzensberger and the Politics of New Media Technology. In: Berry, D. ed. Revisiting the Frankfurt School: Essays on Culture, Media and Theory. Ashgate Publishing

(2011) WAYNE, M. and O'Neill, D., Form, Politics, and Culture: A Case Study of 'The Take', 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' and 'Listen To Venezuela''. In: Kapur, J. and Wagner, KB. eds. Neoliberalism and Global Cinema, Capital, Culture and Marxist Critique. Routledge -

(2009) Wayne, M., British neo-noir and reification: croupier and dirty pretty things. In: Bould, M., Glitre, K. and Tuck, G. eds. Neo-Noir. Wallflower Press 136- 151

(2008) Wayne, M., Documentary as critical and creative research. In: Austen, T. and de Jong, W. eds. Rethinking Documentary: New Perspectives, New Practices. Open University Press

Books

(2012) WAYNE, M., Marx's Das Kapital For Beginners. Steerforth Press

(2010) Wayne, M., Petley, J., Murray, C. and Henderson, L., Television news, politics and young people: Generation disconnected?. Palgrave Macmillan

(2005) WAYNE, M. and Leslie, E., Understanding Film: Marxist Perspectives. Pluto Press

(2003) Wayne, M., Marxism and media studies: key concepts and contemporary trends. London: Pluto Press

(2002) WAYNE, M., The Politics of European Cinema: Histories, Borders, Diasporas. Intellect Press

(2001) Wayne, M., Political film: the dialectics of Third Cinema. London: Pluto Press

(1997) WAYNE, M., Theorising Video Practice. Lawrence and Wishart