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Pretend we're dead : capitalist monsters in American pop culture / Annalee Newitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newitz, Annalee, 1969-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monsters in motion pictures.
- Monsters in literature.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An examination of how monster narratives and horror stories serve as allegories for anxieties about captialism in American popular culture.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Capitalist Monsters
- 1. Serial killers: Murder Can BeWork
- 2. Mad doctors: Professional Middle-Class Jobs Make You Lose Your Mind
- 3. The undead: A Haunted Whiteness
- 4. Robots: Love Machines of theWorld Unite
- 5. Mass media: Monsters of the Culture Industry
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-206) and index.
- Filmography: p. [207]-210.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822387855
- 0822387859
- OCLC:
- 220950460
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