Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Breaking Bad: Capital as Cancer....Pages 9-22
In Time : The First Hollywood Movie of the Occupy Wall Street Era....Pages 23-32
The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch....Pages 33-42
Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal....Pages 43-57
True Detective and Capitalist Development in Its Twilight Phase....Pages 58-69
Tupac Shakur: History’s Poet....Pages 70-80
Vincent van Gogh....Pages 81-90
The Song of Achilles: How the Future Transforms the Past....Pages 91-97
Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna and the Nature of the Historical Novel....Pages 98-106
Balzac’s Women and the Impossibility of Redemption in Cousin Bette....Pages 107-119
The Wife : A Study in Patriarchy....Pages 120-127
The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death Wish, to Batman, to Taxi Driver....Pages 128-133
A Mirror into Our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones....Pages 134-140
Harry Potter and the Modern Age....Pages 141-152
The Hunger Games Trilogy—Art for the Occupy Era....Pages 153-161
The Politics of Deduction: Why Has Sherlock Holmes Proven So Durable?....Pages 162-169
Literary Love as Kantian Sublime: Wuthering Heights and The Sea, The Sea....Pages 170-180
Brief Loves That Live Forever: The Historical Melancholy of Andreï Makine....Pages 181-189
John Williams’ Novel Stoner and the Dialectic of the Infinite and Finite....Pages 190-196
From Tragedy to Farce: The Comedy of Ricky Gervais as Capitalist Critique....Pages 197-209
Back Matter....Pages 210-215