LEADER 00000cam a2200829Ki 4500 001 ocn891590981 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041658.7 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 140929s2014 nju ob 001 0 eng d 019 893686516|a923709567 020 9780813565897|q(electronic book) 020 0813565898|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780813565880 020 |z081356588X 020 |z9780813565873 020 |z0813565871 035 (OCoLC)891590981|z(OCoLC)893686516|z(OCoLC)923709567 037 22573/ctt88904c|bJSTOR 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dP@U|dYDXCP|dJSTOR|dOCLCQ|dE7B |dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dEBLCP|dOCLCO|dDEBSZ|dOCLCQ 043 n-us--- 049 RIDW 050 4 PS374.C36|bC53 2014eb 072 7 LIT|x004020|2bisacsh 072 7 LIT000000|2bisacsh 082 04 813/.5093553|223 090 PS374.C36|bC53 2014eb 100 1 Clare, Ralph,|d1975-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /n2014011678 245 10 Fictions Inc. :|bthe corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture /|cRalph Clare. 246 30 Corporation in postmodern fiction, film, and popular culture 264 1 New Brunswick, New Jersey :|bRutgers University Press, |c2014. 300 1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index. 505 0 Introduction: From Manchuria to Manchuria, Inc. -- California dreaming : twentieth-century corporate fictions at the end of the frontier -- "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 -- Good times, bad times ... you know I had my share(s) : the corporation in five popular films -- A capital death : medicine, technology, and the care of the self in Don Delillo's White noise -- Family incorporated : William Gaddis's J R and the embodiment of capitalism -- Your loss is their gain : the corporate body and the corporeal body in Richard Powers's Gain -- Conclusion: Corporate hegemony, cubed. 520 "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. 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