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100	1		_aNewitz, Annalee, _d1969- _914432 _eaut.
245	1	0	_aPretend we're dead : _bcapitalist monsters in American pop culture / _cAnnalee Newitz
260			_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2006
300			_aviii, 223 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm
504			_aInclou referències bibliogràfiques (p. [199]-206) i índex.
504			_aInclou filmografia (p. [207]-210).
520			_aIn 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 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.
546	1		_aContingut en anglès.
650		0	_aMonstres en la cinematografia _2lemac _913227
650		7	_aMonstres en la literatura _2lemac _914433
650		7	_aNovel·la nord-americana _ySegle XX _xHistòria i crítica _914434
650		7	_aNovel·la nord-americana _ySegle XIX _xHistòria i crítica _2lemac _914434
655		0	_9406 _aLITERATURA _fLITERATURE _iLITERATURA
655		0	_914304 _aCIENCIA FICCIÓN _fSCIENCE FICTION _iCIÈNCIA FICCIÓ
856	4	1	_3Taula de continguts _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip065/2005037846.html
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