Frida Beckman

Culture Control Critique (eBook, PDF)

Allegories of Reading the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216281016
• Artikelnr.: 74832028

Autorenporträt

Frida Beckman is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Stockholm University in Sweden

Inhaltsangabe

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