Fictions Inc.
Clare, Ralph, 1975-
Fictions Inc. the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture / [electronic resource] : Ralph Clare. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: from Manchuria to Manchuria, Inc. -- California dreaming: twentieth-century corporate fictions at the end of the frontier -- "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 -- Good times, bad times . . . you know I had my share(s): the corporation in five popular films -- A capital death: medicine, technology, and the care of the self in Don Delillo's White noise -- Family incorporated: William Gaddis's J R and the embodiment of capitalism -- Your loss is their gain: the corporate body and the corporeal body in Richard Powers's Gain -- Conclusion: corporate hegemony, cubed.
9780813565897 0813565898
Postmodernism--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.--United States
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Industries in literature.
Corporations in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.C36 / C53 2014
813/.5093553
Fictions Inc. the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture / [electronic resource] : Ralph Clare. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: from Manchuria to Manchuria, Inc. -- California dreaming: twentieth-century corporate fictions at the end of the frontier -- "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 -- Good times, bad times . . . you know I had my share(s): the corporation in five popular films -- A capital death: medicine, technology, and the care of the self in Don Delillo's White noise -- Family incorporated: William Gaddis's J R and the embodiment of capitalism -- Your loss is their gain: the corporate body and the corporeal body in Richard Powers's Gain -- Conclusion: corporate hegemony, cubed.
9780813565897 0813565898
Postmodernism--History--United States--20th century.
Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.--United States
Motion pictures--Social aspects--History--United States--20th century.
Industries in literature.
Corporations in literature.
Capitalism in literature.
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic books.
PS374.C36 / C53 2014
813/.5093553