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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Insightful and Provocative!,
By Dave Alber (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture (Paperback)
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 sacrifice of our own lives simply for money, is the dark side of our economic system" (6.)
The following chapters of this energetic, erudite, and sometimes hilarious study of American pop culture are dedicated to five types of popular monsters, which Annalee shows to be projections of capitalist fears. The monsters are: Serial Killers, Mad Doctors, The Undead, Robots, and Mass Media. The final chapter ends this study of pop culture by reminding us that within this system, we are after all, "consumers" of images and cultural forms, which only exist to terrify us. A fun, yet important book! |
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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture by Annalee Newitz (Paperback - July 17, 2006)
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