Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective

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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

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The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch

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Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal

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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

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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

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The Wife: A Study in Patriarchy

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The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death Wish, to Batman, to Taxi Driver

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A Mirror into Our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones

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Harry Potter and the Modern Age

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The Hunger Games Trilogy – Art for the Occupy Era

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The Politics of Deduction: Why Has Sherlock Holmes Proven So Durable?

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