Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture Constitutions by the ghost of his

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Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture Constitutions by the ghost of hisIn 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