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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824280303321
• Autore: Beckman Frida
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-78348-802-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (172 p.)
• Collana: Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics
• Disciplina: 306.201
• Soggetti: Allegories; English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism; Motion pictures - Political aspects - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Culture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the totalizing tendencies of control society.