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9780822337331

Pretend We're Dead

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822337331

  • ISBN10:

    0822337339

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-06-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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Summary

""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, author of "Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book"

Author Biography

Annalee Newitz is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
INTRODUCTION: Capitalist Monsters 1(12)
1. SERIAL KILLERS: Murder Can Be Work 13(40)
2. MAD DOCTORS: Professional Middle-Class Jobs Make You Lose Your Mind 53(36)
3. THE UNDEAD: A Haunted Whiteness 89(34)
4. ROBOTS: Love Machines of the World Unite 123(28)
5. MASS MEDIA: Monsters of the Culture Industry 151(34)
NOTES 185(14)
BIBLIOGRAPHY 199(8)
FILMOGRAPHY 207(4)
INDEX 211

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