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Format: XIII, 244 Seiten.

ISBN: 978-0-8135-6588-0 , 978-0-8135-6587-3 , 978-0-8135-6589-7

Content: "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, and pervasiveness, however, corporations also make themselves into visible, material, and substantial targets for an ever-changing system driven by unseen and immaterial capital. And while the corporate imagination is bent upon finding new ways to accumulate capital and convince consumers to purchase more and more, our own imaginations are not so easily bound so long as they remain focused on conceiving of other possible lives and other possible worlds to this one, and, in the end, fostering the common commitment and the willingness to bring them about" --

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

Keywords: Roman ; Film ; Firma ; Wirtschaft

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780813565897

Content: Fictions 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , 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 Author , In English.

Language: English

Subjects: American Studies

DOI: 10.36019/9780813565897

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813565897

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Format: 1 online resource (261 pages)

ISBN: 9780813565897 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Clare, Ralph, 1975- Fictions Inc. : the corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture. New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, c2014 ISBN 9780813565880

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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