ABSTRACT
This chapter explores that the dialectics attempts to perceive movement as a contradictory unity of opposites and attempts to comprehend the dynamics of social relations in society. Cyril Lionel Robert James, who occasionally used the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was born in Trinidad, a colony of Britain at the time in 1901, and died in the eventful year of 1989, the year of the collapse of the Stalinist regimes in the former USSR and Central and Eastern Europe. James's approach to the creative individual and that individual's interpretation of the moment of 'cultural consumption' in a capitalist context is, on the one hand, akin to established Marxist traditions such as Political Economy and writers associated with the Frankfurt School and, on the other, a departure. James's analysis of film, radio and the comic strip is an attempt to rescue American cultural forms from what he considers to be a misguided analysis by many commentators.
