Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop CultureDuke University Press, 17 ก.ค. 2006 - 223 หน้า In Pretend We’re Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. Ravaged by overwork, alienated by corporate conformity, and mutilated by the unfettered lust for profit, fictional monsters act out the problems with an economic system that seems designed to eat people whole. Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Whether considering the serial killer who turns murder into a kind of labor by mass producing dead bodies, or the hack writers and bloodthirsty actresses trapped inside Hollywood’s profit-mad storytelling machine, she reveals that each creature has its own tale to tell about how a freewheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. Newitz tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through b movies, Hollywood blockbusters, pulp fiction, and American literary classics, looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer’s “true life novel” The Executioner’s Song; the short stories of Isaac Asimov and H. P. Lovecraft; the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and Marge Piercy; true-crime books about the serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer; and movies including Modern Times (1936), Donovan’s Brain (1953), Night of the Living Dead (1968), RoboCop (1987), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Newitz shows that as literature and film tell it, the story of American capitalism since the late nineteenth century is a tale of body-mangling, soul-crushing horror. |
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... Economic Disturbances Stories about monstrosity are generally studied from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives , but I argue that an analysis of economic life must be synthesized with both in order to understand how we define " mon ...
... economic concerns rise to the surface and become overt are gener- ally marginal affairs , embraced only by audiences of the highly educated or hardcore fans . As an example , consider the strange case of Brian Yuzna's brilliant 1989 ...
... so heavily foregrounded that the questions about social class and economic mobility which fuel the narrative are safely contained as subtext . Dead Labor A number of theorists and literary critics such 4 CAPITALIST MONSTERS.
... economic life in the United States . As Clover explains , something about the flagrant vio- lence of generic horror lends itself well to allegorical reading . Addressing the problem of gender in slasher films , she writes : The ...
... economic system . Great Monsters in American History In this book , I deal with five types of monsters : serial killers , mad doctors , the undead , robots , and people involved in the media industry . I use each chapter to trace the ...
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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture Annalee Newitz ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 2006 |