| #299230 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2006-07-17 | 2006-07-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.58 x6.00l,.74 | File type: PDF | 232 pages | ||22 of 25 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful and Provocative!|By Dave Alber|Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz explores pop culture images of monsters as metaphors for experiences within American-style capitalism. Her premise is stated in her introduction, "Capitalism, as its monsters tell us more or less explicitly, makes us pretend we're dead in order to live. This pretense of death, this willing sacrific||
“Pretend We're Dead sets our monsters free of the dank laboratory of psychosexual studies and sends them rampaging across the landscape of economic reality. A sweeping, liberating, and wonderfully readable book.”—Gerard Jones, aut
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.
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You easily download any file type for your device.Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture | Annalee Newitz. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
