Culture, Capital and Carnival: Modern Media and the Representation of Work

Culture, Capital and Carnival offers 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 ...