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Fictions Inc : The Corporation in Postmodern Fiction, Film, and Popular Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813565897
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fictions IncDDC classification:
  • 813/.5093553
LOC classification:
  • PS374.C36 C53 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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