04565nam 2200745 450 991080772250332120230126213438.00-8135-6589-810.36019/9780813565897(CKB)3710000000248145(EBL)1794123(SSID)ssj0001349250(PQKBManifestationID)11950117(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349250(PQKBWorkID)11402388(PQKB)10822802(MiAaPQ)EBC1794123(OCoLC)891590981(MdBmJHUP)muse37987(DE-B1597)526070(DE-B1597)9780813565897(Au-PeEL)EBL1794123(CaPaEBR)ebr10943493(OCoLC)923709567(EXLCZ)99371000000024814520141010h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrFictions Inc. the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture /Ralph ClareNew Brunswick, New Jersey ;London :Rutgers University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (261 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-6588-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: From Manchuria to Manchuria Inc. --1. California Dreaming: Twentieth-Century Corporate Fictions at the End of the Frontier --2. "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 --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 Care of the Self in Don DeLillo's White Noise --5. Family Incorporated: William Gaddis's J R and the Embodiment of Capitalism --6. Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers's Gain --Conclusion: Corporate Hegemony, Cubed --Notes --Works Cited --Index --About the AuthorFictions Inc. explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation-Frank Norris's The Octopus-Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to "individual," and from American industry to multinational "Other." Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such as Network, Ghostbusters, Gung Ho, Office Space, and Michael Clayton; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television's The Office and the comic strips Life Is Hell and Dilbert. Paying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of "corporate bodies," Fictions Inc. shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system.Corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular cultureAmerican fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismCapitalism in literatureCorporations in literatureIndustries in literatureMotion picturesSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMotion picturesUnited StatesPlots, themes, etcPostmodernismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican fictionHistory and criticism.Capitalism in literature.Corporations in literature.Industries in literature.Motion picturesSocial aspectsHistoryMotion picturesPlots, themes, etc.PostmodernismHistory813/.5093553HU 1819rvkClare Ralph1975-1710077MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807722503321Fictions Inc4100374UNINA