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Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
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Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Latham, R

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University Of Chicago Press, 2002. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780226468921
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  • Title Consuming Youth: Vampires, Cyborgs, and the Culture of Consumption
  • Author Latham, R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9653724
  • ISBN 9780226468921 / 0226468925
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.78 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.98 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Consumer behavior - United States, Young adult consumers - United States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001037803
  • Dewey Decimal Code 658.834

First line

In my introduction I focused principally on the political-economic implications of Marx's metaphor of the vampire-cyborg: how it allows a critique of the capitalist factory as an undead machine that feeds upon and incorporates workers' living substance.

From the rear cover

From the novels of Anne Rice to The Lost Boys, from The Terminator to cyberpunk science fiction, vampires and cyborgs have become strikingly visible figures within American popular culture, especially youth culture. In Consuming Youth, Rob Latham explains why, showing how fiction, film, and other media deploy these ambiguous monsters to embody and work through the implications of a capitalist system in which youth both consume and are consumed. Arguing that contemporary images of vampires and cyborgs illuminate the contradictory processes of prosthetic empowerment and predatory exploitation that characterize the youth-consumer system, Latham offers detailed readings of major works of fiction, film, and cultural theory that centrally address issues related to youth, technology, and consumption.

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About the author

Rob Latham is an associate professor of English and American studies at the University of Iowa. He is coeditor of the journal Science Fiction Studies and of Modes of the Fantastic, a collection of essays on fantastic fiction and film.

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