ISBN:
1137526610
,
9781137526618
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Art, literature and culture from a Marxist perspective
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Socialism and the arts
;
Socialism and culture
Abstract:
"Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective provides a historical and dialectical journey through some of the most salient and abiding works of art, literature, TV series and film, including the analysis of more classical forms such as the paintings of Van Gogh or work by Balzac and Bronte, alongside modern elements which are on the cutting edge of contemporary culture - like HBO's Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, The Walking Dead, True Detective, the life and music of Tupac Shakur, the comedy of Ricky Gervais and more. The author demonstrates, with a lucid and literary style, how these works and artists are important more broadly; how they manage to weave into a fantasy fabric the fundamental forms of the historical realities in which we are enmeshed; how each is stamped with that historical necessity. "--
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note:Introduction1. Breaking Bad: Capital as Cancer 2. In Time: The First Hollywood Movie of the Occupy Wall Street Era 3. The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch 4. Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal 5. True Detective and Capitalist Development in its Twilight Phase 6. Tupac Shakur: History's Poet 7. Vincent Van Gogh 8. The Song of Achilles: How the Future Transforms the Past 9. Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna and the Nature of the Historical Novel 10. Balzac's Women and the Impossibility of Redemption in Cousin Bette 11. The Wife -- A Study in Patriarchy and Veiled Oppression 12. The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death-Wish, to Batman, to Taxi-driver 13. A Mirror into our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones 14. Harry Potter and the Modern Age 15. The Hunger Games Trilogy -- Art for the Occupy Era 16. The Politics of Deduction: Why has Sherlock Holmes Proven so Durable? 17. Literary Love as Transcendental Sublime: Wuthering Heights and The Sea, The Sea 18. Brief Loves that Live Forever: the Historical Melancholy of Andrei; Makine 19. John William's novel Stoner and the Dialectic of the Infinite and Finite 20. From Tragedy to Farce: The Comedy of Ricky Gervais as Capitalist Critique.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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