Culture Control Critique
Allegories of Reading the Present
1st Edition
Published on 3. May 2016
192 pages
978-1-78348-802-5 (ISBN)
Description
When "revolution" becomes a recurring theme in mainstream culture, where do we look for the tools for a critical engagement with the present? Addressing the link between allegory and cultural critique in contemporary culture and resisting the thematic abstraction of sexy, fast, revolutionary content, this book suggests that one way is to pay attention not so much to content as to form.
Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and recurring political logic that controls the desire for political change.
Culture Control Critique provides an analysis of how representations of political systems in contemporary mainstream culture may be understood not so much by looking at their apparent critical message but by shifting our critical gaze to an underlying and recurring political logic that controls the desire for political change.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-78348-802-5 (9781783488025)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2016
Rowman & Littlefield International
€181.10
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden
Content
Acknowledgements / Preface / Introduction / 1. Culture, Control, Critique / 2. Formalism, Allegory, Totality / 3. Space, Allegory, Control / 4. Time, Allegory, Control / 5. Vision, Allegory, Control / Conclusion / Index
