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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: We Halcyonians -- Motifs of physical capital and bodily transformation -- Eternity and the body -- Fictional bodies of the Great Depression -- The dean's laughing fit -- The road to Kotka at night -- The aesthetics of limbo -- Window babies -- Surplus and sacrifice -- This animal which is not one -- Dialectics at an impasse -- (In)conclusion: on the evanescent. |
| Summary |
"Subjects considered in this book include the films of Charlie Kaufman and Stan Brakhage, the fiction of Philip Roth and Don DeLillo, the feminist art criticism of Lucy Lippard, and the meanings of virtuality and the internet"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Manual work -- Philosophy.
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Manual work. |
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Philosophy. |
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Mutilation -- Philosophy.
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Mutilation. |
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Human capital -- Philosophy.
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Human capital. |
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Work in literature.
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Work in literature. |
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Literature and society.
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Work in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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Literature and society. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Work in motion pictures. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780786495887 078649588X (DLC) 2014032944 |
| ISBN |
147661704X (electronic book) |
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9781476617046 (electronic book) |
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9780786495887 (softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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078649588X (softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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