Fictions Inc. : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture /

"Worries over global economics aside, even representations of "American" corporations demonstrate that America's preoccupation with the virtues and vices of capitalism has been ongoing and, moreover, responsive to its particular historical context. For all their power, influence,...

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Main Author: Clare, Ralph, 1975- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, 2014.
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505 0 |a 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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