Format:
xxvi, 144 Seiten
ISBN:
9781783488001
,
9781783488018
Series Statement:
Critical perspectives on theory, culture and politics
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781783488025
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Beckman, Frida, author Culture control critique London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Angloamerika
;
Politisches System
;
Kulturkritik
;
Allegorie
;
Literatur
;
Film
