Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present /

Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the tot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Beckman, Frida (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]
Temas:
1900-1999
Allegories.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Political aspects > History and criticism.
Allégories.
Roman anglais > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Cinéma > Aspect politique > Histoire et critique.
allegory (artistic device)
allegories (literary works)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Allegories
English fiction
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Culture, control, critique. Cultural critique from the Frankfurt School until today
  • Formalism, allegory, totality. Allegory and representation
  • Allegory and the present
  • Space, allegory, control. Spatial preoccupations
  • Celebrating ruins: The drowned world, The drought, The crystal world
  • Filling the gaps: Crash, Concrete island, High rise
  • Coming into allegory: Cocaine nights, Super-Cannes, Millennium people, Kingdom come
  • Totalities, allegories and revolutions
  • Cultural critique and form
  • Time, allegory, control. Timely preoccupations
  • In and out of time: "Chronopolis" and in time
  • Cultural critique and form
  • Vision, allegory, control. Visual preoccupations
  • bread and circuses: The hunger games
  • Cultural critique and form
  • Conclusion.

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