“I always place my bet on Red”: Comrade Detective and the Spectre of Communism
The paper analyses the buddy cop TV show Comrade Detective in the light of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx (1994) to demonstrate how it launches a satiric critique of the American state and diplomatic machinery in the aftermath of the fall of the Second Bloc. I argue that this visual text, releas...
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oai:doaj.org-article:1fb0cf5d634441a4914bd6aadfad4e642021-11-23T09:50:51Z“I always place my bet on Red”: Comrade Detective and the Spectre of Communism1749-977110.2218/forum.32.6470https://doaj.org/article/1fb0cf5d634441a4914bd6aadfad4e642021-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/6470https://doaj.org/toc/1749-9771The paper analyses the buddy cop TV show Comrade Detective in the light of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx (1994) to demonstrate how it launches a satiric critique of the American state and diplomatic machinery in the aftermath of the fall of the Second Bloc. I argue that this visual text, released in 2017, addresses three contemporary global concerns—the dominance of the USA in a unipolar world, the neoliberal celebration of consumerism, and finally, the rise of right-wing religious fanaticism—through a satiric recreation of the bygone regime of communist Romania of the 1980s.Debayudh ChatterjeeUniversity of EdinburgharticleFine ArtsNLanguage and LiteraturePENForum, Iss 32 (2021) |
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The paper analyses the buddy cop TV show Comrade Detective in the light of Jacques Derrida’s Spectres of Marx (1994) to demonstrate how it launches a satiric critique of the American state and diplomatic machinery in the aftermath of the fall of the Second Bloc. I argue that this visual text, released in 2017, addresses three contemporary global concerns—the dominance of the USA in a unipolar world, the neoliberal celebration of consumerism, and finally, the rise of right-wing religious fanaticism—through a satiric recreation of the bygone regime of communist Romania of the 1980s. |
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