LEADER 03026nam 2200589 450 001 9910798388003321 005 20170919184633.0 010 $a1-78348-802-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000657632 035 $a(EBL)4535935 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001663989 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16449212 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001663989 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14902859 035 $a(PQKB)10433206 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16324801 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14902860 035 $a(PQKB)24134783 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4535935 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000657632 100 $a20160216d2016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCulture control critique $eallegories of reading the present /$fFrida Beckman 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRowman & Littlefield International,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (172 p.) 225 1 $aCritical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78348-801-8 311 $a1-78348-800-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 330 $aCulture Control Critique is an attempt to address the current crisis in cultural critique, situate it in relation to what it sees as a powerful tendency toward political allegory in contemporary Anglo-American mainstream culture, and analyse how this tendency can be understood in relation to the totalizing tendencies of control society. 410 0$aCritical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics 606 $aAllegories 606 $aEnglish fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAllegories. 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPolitical aspects$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a306.201 700 $aBeckman$b Frida$01213606 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798388003321 996 $aCulture control critique$93837710 997 $aUNINA