Clare, Ralph.

Fictions Inc : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (261 pages)

Intro -- 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.

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American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Capitalism in literature.
Corporations in literature.
Industries in literature.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--United States--Plots, themes, etc.
Postmodernism--United States--History--20th century.


Electronic books.

PS374.C36 C53 2014

813/.5093553