{"product_id":"fictions-inc","title":"Fictions Inc.","description":"\u003ci\u003eFictions Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e explores how depictions of the corporation in American literature, film, and popular culture have changed over time. Beginning with perhaps the most famous depiction of a corporation—Frank Norris’s \u003ci\u003eThe Octopus\u003c\/i\u003e—Ralph Clare traces this figure as it shifts from monster to man, from force to “individual,” and from American industry to multinational “Other.” Clare examines a variety of texts that span the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, including novels by Thomas Pynchon, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Richard Powers, and Joshua Ferris; films such as \u003ci\u003eNetwork\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhostbusters\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGung Ho\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOffice Space\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMichael Clayton\u003c\/i\u003e; and assorted artifacts of contemporary media such as television’s \u003ci\u003eThe Office\u003c\/i\u003e and the comic strips \u003ci\u003eLife Is Hell\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDilbert\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaying particular attention to the rise of neoliberalism, the emergence of biopolitics, and the legal status of “corporate bodies,” \u003ci\u003eFictions Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e shows that representations of corporations have come to serve, whether directly or indirectly, as symbols for larger economic concerns often too vast or complex to comprehend. Whether demonized or lionized, the corporation embodies American anxieties about these current conditions and ongoing fears about the viability of a capitalist system. ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":54220494111064,"sku":"9780813565873","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813565873__67654766266f4.jpg?v=1741158600","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/fictions-inc","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}