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1 online resource (172 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Allegories.
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English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Beckman, Frida. Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present. London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 9781783488001 |
| ISBN |
9781783488001 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781783488018 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9781783488025 (e-book) |
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