Culture control critique allegories of reading the present / Frida Beckman.

Author/creator Beckman, Frida
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2016]
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Beckman, Frida, author. Culture control critique London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 9781783488001
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LCCN 2016008546
ISBN9781783488025 (electronic)
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