Fictions Inc. [electronic resource] : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture / Ralph Clare.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780813565897
- 0813565898
- Postmodernism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Motion pictures -- United States -- Plots, themes, etc
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Industries in literature
- Corporations in literature
- Capitalism in literature
- American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- 813/.5093553 23
- PS374.C36 C53 2014
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.
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