Ralph Clare

Fictions Inc.: The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of “corporate bodies,” Fictions Inc. shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Altersempfehlung: 18 bis 22 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780813565873
• ISBN-10: 0813565871
• Artikelnr.: 40843328

Autorenporträt

RALPH CLARE is an assistant professor of English at Boise State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Manchuria to Manchuria Inc.
1          California Dreaming: Twentieth-Century Corporate Fictions at the
End of the Frontier
2          “Domo Arigato, Mr. Sakamoto, for the New Non-Union Contract!”:
(Multi)National Threats and the Decline of the American Auto Industry in
Ron Howard’s Gung Ho
3          Good Times, Bad Times . . . You Know I Had My Share(s): The
Corporation in Five Popular Films
4          A Capital Death: Medicine, Technology, and the Care of the Self
in Don DeLillo’s White Noise
5          Family Incorporated: William Gaddis’s J R and the Embodiment of
Capitalism
6          Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal
Body in Richard Powers’s Gain
Conclusion: Corporate Hegemony, Cubed
Notes
Works Cited
Index