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Contents
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Breaking Bad: Capital as Cancer
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In Time: The First Hollywood Movie of the Occupy Wall Street Era
23
The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch
33
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Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal
43
5
True Detective and Capitalist Development in Its Twilight Phase
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Tupac Shakur: History’s Poet
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Vincent van Gogh
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The Song of Achilles: How the Future Transforms the Past
91
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Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna and the Nature of the Historical Novel
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Balzac’s Women and the Impossibility of Redemption in Cousin Bette
107
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The Wife: A Study in Patriarchy
120
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The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death Wish, to Batman, to Taxi Driver
128
A Mirror into Our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones
134
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Harry Potter and the Modern Age
141
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The Hunger Games Trilogy – Art for the Occupy Era
153
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The Politics of Deduction: Why Has Sherlock Holmes Proven So Durable?
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