TY - BOOK AU - Clare,Ralph ED - Project Muse. TI - Fictions Inc: the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture SN - 9780813565897 AV - PS374.C36 C53 2014 U1 - 813/.5093553 23 PY - 2014/// CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Postmodernism KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Motion pictures KW - Plots, themes, etc KW - Social aspects KW - Industries in literature KW - Corporations in literature KW - Capitalism in literature KW - American fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813565897/ ER -