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Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9798765137338)
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xCulture, Capital and Carnivaloffers an interdisciplinary examination of how modern culture contextualises the values of labour.
How do the stories we consume represent work and shape its meaning in our lives? How has the history of modern art, critique and cultural production negotiated the idea of labour and the behaviours and beliefs which give it legitimacy and coherence? Beginning with a critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the 'carnivalesque', Culture, Capital and Carnival examines a diverse array of multimedia texts from the era of modern capitalism - including a mixture of canonical and culturally impactful novels, short stories, non-fiction, films and TV sitcoms - and addresses the various ideological tensions surrounding the representation of work.
Individual chapters look at how culture's various attempts to 'carnivalize' the values of labour can be challenged and ask whether critical representations can also perpetuate the values they seek to negate. By extending the author's previous work on the contemporary reinterpretation of Romanticism as an expansive modern phenomenon, Culture, Capital and Carnival adopts a radical critical perspective to explain how media products in the age of neoliberal capitalism can 'carnivalize' the values of modern capitalist labour even as they undermine economic and political freedom.
Author: Will Kitchen
ISBN-13: 9798765137338
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
How do the stories we consume represent work and shape its meaning in our lives? How has the history of modern art, critique and cultural production negotiated the idea of labour and the behaviours and beliefs which give it legitimacy and coherence? Beginning with a critique of Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of the 'carnivalesque', Culture, Capital and Carnival examines a diverse array of multimedia texts from the era of modern capitalism - including a mixture of canonical and culturally impactful novels, short stories, non-fiction, films and TV sitcoms - and addresses the various ideological tensions surrounding the representation of work.
Individual chapters look at how culture's various attempts to 'carnivalize' the values of labour can be challenged and ask whether critical representations can also perpetuate the values they seek to negate. By extending the author's previous work on the contemporary reinterpretation of Romanticism as an expansive modern phenomenon, Culture, Capital and Carnival adopts a radical critical perspective to explain how media products in the age of neoliberal capitalism can 'carnivalize' the values of modern capitalist labour even as they undermine economic and political freedom.
Author: Will Kitchen
ISBN-13: 9798765137338
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2025
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
By Will Kitchen
xWill Kitchen was Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Southampton and Visiting Tutor at the Bournemouth Film School, Arts University Bournemouth, UK. He is the author and editor of several books on modern culture and critical theory, including Film, Negation and Freedom: Capitalism and Romantic Critique (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023), ReFocus: The Films of Lindsay Anderson (2025) and Romanticism and Film: Franz Liszt and Audio-Visual Explanation (Bloomsbury, 2020).
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