Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture ConstitutionsIn Pretend Were 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
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damaged outsider
“It’s rare to read anything that feels this unique
by the ghost of his father
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Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a continuous and standalone story
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one Saturday in August 2019
generating headlines and controversy
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”—Daniel Gilbert
they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin