LEADER 04565nam 2200745 450 001 9910787053603321 005 20230126213438.0 010 $a0-8135-6589-8 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813565897 035 $a(CKB)3710000000248145 035 $a(EBL)1794123 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001349250 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11950117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001349250 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11402388 035 $a(PQKB)10822802 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1794123 035 $a(OCoLC)891590981 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37987 035 $a(DE-B1597)526070 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813565897 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1794123 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10943493 035 $a(OCoLC)923709567 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000248145 100 $a20141010h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFictions Inc. $ethe corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture /$fRalph Clare 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey ;$aLondon :$cRutgers University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (261 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6588-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: From Manchuria to Manchuria Inc. --$t1. California Dreaming: Twentieth-Century Corporate Fictions at the End of the Frontier --$t2. "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 --$t3. Good Times, Bad Times . . . You Know I Had My Share(s): The Corporation in Five Popular Films --$t4. A Capital Death: Medicine, Technology, and the Care of the Self in Don DeLillo's White Noise --$t5. Family Incorporated: William Gaddis's J R and the Embodiment of Capitalism --$t6. Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers's Gain --$tConclusion: Corporate Hegemony, Cubed --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aFictions 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. 517 3 $aCorporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture 606 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCapitalism in literature 606 $aCorporations in literature 606 $aIndustries in literature 606 $aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$zUnited States$xPlots, themes, etc 606 $aPostmodernism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCapitalism in literature. 615 0$aCorporations in literature. 615 0$aIndustries in literature. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xPlots, themes, etc. 615 0$aPostmodernism$xHistory 676 $a813/.5093553 686 $aHU 1819$2rvk 700 $aClare$b Ralph$f1975-$01504456 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787053603321 996 $aFictions Inc$93733475 997 $aUNINA