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Informationen zum Autor Annalee Newitz is a contributing editor at Wired magazine and a freelance writer in San Francisco. She is the former culture editor at the San Francisco Bay Guardian and was the recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship in 2002–03. She is a coeditor of White Trash: Race and Class in America and Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. She has written for New York magazine, and numerous other publications, including The Believer, salon.com, and Popular Science. Newitz has a Ph.D. in English and American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext An examination of how monster narratives and horror stories serve as allegories for anxieties about captialism in American popular culture. Zusammenfassung Argues that the zombies and murderers in American film and literature embody the violent contradictions of capitalism. This book reveals that each creature has its own tale about how a free-wheeling market economy turns human beings into monstrosities. It tracks the monsters spawned by capitalism through pulp fiction! and Hollywood blockbusters. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Capitalist Monsters 1 1. Serial Killers: Murder Can Be Work 13 2. Mad Doctors: Professional Middle-Class Jobs Make You Loose Your Mind 53 3. The Undead: A Haunted Whiteness 89 4. Robots: Love Machines of the World Unite 123 5. Mass Media: Monsters of the Culture Industry 151 Notes 185 Bibliography 199 Filmography 207 Index 211
