Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson is a literary theorist and Marxist critic who reads narrative, film, architecture, and other cultural forms through history, ideology, and modes of production. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism is the broadest entry: it connects changes in art and everyday culture to multinational capitalism without treating postmodernism as a matter of style alone. The Political Unconscious develops his influential claim that narrative must be interpreted as a socially symbolic act. A Singular Modernity questions how modernity is divided into periods, while Signatures of the Visible brings his method to film. Allegory and Ideology returns to the political work performed by narrative form. Postmodernism establishes Jameson's large cultural map; The Political Unconscious supplies the interpretive method beneath it, and Signatures of the Visible offers a focused route for readers interested in cinema.