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.

Introduction
1. 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