An Invitation to explore the Viaducts of our Minds

Ideology Critique in American Literature and Film during the Seventies

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Artists explored the dark places of the American experience during the seventies. After providing an overview of the rhetorical device allegory, Barthes's concept of mythology and Foucault's concept of power relations, the author establishes a connection between the works of art under discussion. The early seventies are represented by Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, Peter Watkins's Punishment Park, and Hubert Selby, Jr.'s The Room. The late seventies are represented by Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, Gustav Hasford's The Short Timers and George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead. The book traces a shift from relations between bodies and authority towards bodies and technology. America during the seventies as portrayed by Wes Craven, Peter Watkins, Hubert Selby, Jr., Philip K. Dick, Gustav Hasford and George A. Romeo is analyzed. The rhetorical device allegory, Barthes’s concept of mythology and Foucault’s concept of power relations are utilized in order to expose a discussion of the body under siege.
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Schrijver
Schenk, Sandra
Titel
An Invitation to explore the Viaducts of our Minds
Uitgever
Peter Lang AG
Jaar
2014
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
108
Gewicht
172 gr
EAN
9783631651506
Afmetingen
203 x 146 x 6 mm
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Paperback

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