Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective

Tony McKenna is a philosopher and journalist whose work has been featured in many publications including The Huffington Post, ABC Australia, The United Nations, The Progressive, New Statesman, New Internationalist, New Humanist, Adbusters, In These Times, Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory, Science and Society, Socialism and Democracy, Rethinking Marxism, Overland Literary Journal, Ceasefire Magazine and Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.

Introduction1. Breaking Bad: Capital as Cancer 2. In Time: The First Hollywood Movie of the Occupy Wall Street Era 3. The Walking Dead: The Archetype of the Zombie in the Modern Epoch 4. Let Me In: The Figure of the Vampire as Kantian Noumenal 5. True Detective and Capitalist Development in its Twilight Phase 6. Tupac Shakur: History ' 's Poet 7. Vincent Van Gogh 8. The Song of Achilles: How the Future Transforms the Past 9. Barbara Kingsolver ' 's The Lacuna and the Nature of the Historical Novel 10. Balzac ' 's Women and the Impossibility of Redemption in Cousin Bette 11. The Wife - A Study in Patriarchy and Veiled Oppression 12. The Vigilante in Film: The Movement from Death-Wish, to Batman, to Taxi-driver 13. A Mirror into our World: The Radical Politics of Game of Thrones 14. Harry Potter and the Modern Age 15. The Hunger Games Trilogy - Art for the Occupy Era 16. The Politics of Deduction: Why has Sherlock Holmes Proven so Durable 17. Literary Love as Transcendental Sublime: Wuthering Heights and The Sea, The Sea 18. Brief Loves that Live Forever: the Historical Melancholy of Andreï Makine 19. John William ' 's novel Stoner and the Dialectic of the Infinite and Finite 20. From Tragedy to Farce: The Comedy of Ricky Gervais as Capitalist Critique