Pretend We're Dead - 9780822337454
Un libro in lingua di Annalee Newitz edito da Duke Univ Pr, 2006
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Newitz looks at representations of serial killers, mad doctors, the undead, cyborgs, and unfortunates mutated by their involvement with the mass media industry. Whether considering the serial killer who turns murder into a kind of labor by mass producing dead bodies, or the hack writers and bloodthirsty actresses trapped inside Hollywood's profit-mad storytelling machine, she reveals that each creature has its own tale to tell about how a freewheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities.
Newitz tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through b movies, Hollywood blockbusters, pulp fiction, and American literary classics, looking at their manifestations in works such as Norman Mailer's “true life novel” The Executioner's Song; the short stories of Isaac Asimov and H. P. Lovecraft; the cyberpunk novels of William Gibson and Marge Piercy; true-crime books about the serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer; and movies including Modern Times (1936), Donovan's Brain (1953), Night of the Living Dead (1968), RoboCop (1987), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), and Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Newitz shows that as literature and film tell it, the story of American capitalism since the late nineteenth century is a tale of body-mangling, soul-crushing horror.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Pretend We're Dead
- Sottotitolo: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Annalee Newitz
- Editore: Duke Univ Pr
- Collana: Duke Univ Pr (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 30 Giugno '06
- Genere: PERFORMING ARTS
- Argomenti : Monsters in motion pictures Monsters in literature American fiction 20th century History and criticism
- Pagine: 223
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 152 x 12
- ISBN-10: 0822337452
- EAN-13: 9780822337454