Deirdre O’Neill is a working class lecturer and filmmaker. Her forthcoming book Film as a Radical Pedagogic Tool explores the way in which film can be used as a means of working class people representing their own lives.

Mike Wayne has written widely on the politics and ideology of film, television and the media as well as Marxist cultural theory. His most recently published book is Red Kant: Aesthetics, Marxism and the Third Critique (Bloomsbury, 2014).