Art, literature and culture from a Marxist perspective. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tony McKenna.
• Authors: McKenna, Tony, 1979-
• Contents: 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 Andreï 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306; Socialism and culture; Socialism and the arts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137526618
• Related ISBNs: 9781137526601
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