Fictions Inc. : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture.
Title:
Fictions Inc. : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture.
Author:
Clare, Ralph.
ISBN:
9780813565897
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (261 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. From Manchuriato Manchuria Inc. -- 1. California Dreaming: Twentieth-Century Corporate Fictionsat the End of the Frontier -- 2. "Domo Arigato, Mr. Sakamoto, for the New Non-UnionContract!": (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 Careof the Self in Don DeLillo's White Noise -- 5. Family Incorporated: William Gaddis's J Rand the Embodiment of Capitalism -- 6. Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Bodyand the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers's Gain -- Conclusion. Corporate Hegemony, Cubed -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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