03026nam 2200589 450 991079838800332120170919184633.01-78348-802-6(CKB)3710000000657632(EBL)4535935(SSID)ssj0001663989(PQKBManifestationID)16449212(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663989(PQKBWorkID)14902859(PQKB)10433206(PQKBManifestationID)16324801(PQKBWorkID)14902860(PQKB)24134783(MiAaPQ)EBC4535935(EXLCZ)99371000000065763220160216d2016 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCulture control critique allegories of reading the present /Frida BeckmanLondon ;New York :Rowman & Littlefield International,2016.1 online resource (172 p.)Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and PoliticsDescription based upon print version of record.1-78348-801-8 1-78348-800-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and PoliticsAllegoriesEnglish fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismMotion picturesPolitical aspectsHistory and criticismAllegories.English fictionHistory and criticism.Motion picturesPolitical aspectsHistory and criticism.306.201Beckman Frida1213606MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798388003321Culture control critique3837710UNINA