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London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016

1 online resource (172 pages)

ISBN 9781783488025 (e-book)

ISBN 9781783488001 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9781783488018 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Print version: Beckman, Frida. Culture control critique : allegories of reading the present. London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016 ISBN 9781783488001

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.

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