Incomplete Projects Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture

Name: Incomplete Projects Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture
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ISBN: 9780819565556

ISBN-10: 0819565555

ISBN-13: 9780819565556

Edition: 2002

Authors: Carl Freedman

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The Incomplete Projects reevaluates the role of Marxist theory in the study of culture and makes a case for Marxist cultural analysis as a relevant political practice. Part I provides the reader with a comprehensive and lively overview of Marxist thought. Part II is a collection of case studies analyzing a wide range of cultural objects, from the novels of Philip K. Dick to the television series M*A*S*H. The objects of study are either American or British in origin, reflecting the dominance of Anglo-American culture in our new global economy; they are also what Freedman describes as 'middle culture,' falling somewhere between the bifurcated categories of high and low art. Through these case…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 250
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.704



Preface


Acknowledgments



Marxism Today


The Situation of Modernity and the Crisis of Political Thinking at the Present Time



Case Studies in the Politics and Ideology of Culture



From History to Myth: The Ideology of MAS*H



England as Ideology: From Upstairs Downstairs to A Room with a View



On Kubrick's 2001: Form and Ideology in Science-Fiction Cinema



Power, Sexuality, and Race in All the King's Men



Labor and Politics in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest



Late Modernity and Paranoia: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick



Antinomies of Nineteen Eighty-four


Index