Art, Literature and Culture from a Marxist Perspective, 1st ed. 2015

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