Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture

by Annalee Newitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822337452
• ISBN13: 9780822337454
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"