5. Family Incorporated: William Gaddis’s J R and the Embodiment of Capitalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: From Manchuria to Manchuria Inc. 1
5. 1. California Dreaming: Twentieth-Century Corporate Fictions at the End of the Frontier 18
6. 2. “Domo Arigato, Mr. Sakamoto, for the New Non-Union Contract!”: (Multi)national Threats and the Decline of the American Auto Industry in Ron Howard’s Gung Ho 50
7. 3. Good Times, Bad Times . . . You Know I Had My Share(s): The Corporation in Five Popular Films 74
8. 4. A Capital Death: Medicine, Technology, and the Care of the Self in Don DeLillo’s White Noise 115
9. 5. Family Incorporated: William Gaddis’s J R and the Embodiment of Capitalism 136
10. 6. Your Loss Is Their Gain: The Corporate Body and the Corporeal Body in Richard Powers’s Gain 158
11. Conclusion: Corporate Hegemony, Cubed 180
12. Notes 207
13. Works Cited 221
14. Index 235
15. About the Author 245