Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective

<p>Introduction<br/>1. Breaking Bad: Capital as Cancer <br/>2. In Time: The First Hollywood Movie of the Occupy Wall Street Era <br/>3. The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch <br/>4. Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal <br/>5. True Detective and Capitalist Development in its Twilight Phase <br/>6. Tupac Shakur: History ' 's Poet <br/>7. Vincent Van Gogh <br/>8. The Song of Achilles: How the Future Transforms the Past <br/>9. Barbara Kingsolver ' 's The Lacuna and the Nature of the Historical Novel <br/>10. Balzac ' 's Women and the Impossibility of Redemption in Cousin Bette <br/>11. The Wife - A Study in Patriarchy and Veiled Oppression <br/>12. The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death-Wish, to Batman, to Taxi-driver <br/>13. A Mirror into our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones <br/>14. Harry Potter and the Modern Age <br/>15. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Art for the Occupy Era <br/>16. The Politics of Deduction: Why has Sherlock Holmes Proven so Durable <br/>17. Literary Love as Transcendental Sublime: Wuthering Heights and The Sea, The Sea <br/>18. Brief Loves that Live Forever: the Historical Melancholy of Andreï Makine <br/>19. John William ' 's novel Stoner and the Dialectic of the Infinite and Finite <br/>20. From Tragedy to Farce: The Comedy of Ricky Gervais as Capitalist Critique <br/><br/></p>