{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Capitalism Hates You: Horror film and Marxist theory.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/535654e1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4555,"description":"From Get Out to The Babadook to Saint Maud: In his new book, Josh Gooch uses the horror film genre to expose the hostile conditions of life under capitalism, drawing connections between Marxist theory and contemporary narratives of psychological unease. Here, Gooch is joined in conversation with Jo Isaacson. This episode contains spoilers for multiple films (list below). Access a transcript: https://share.transistor.fm/s/535654e1Joshua Gooch is professor of English at D’Youville University in Buffalo, New York. He is author of Capitalism Hates You: Marxism and the New Horror Film; Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity and The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy.Johanna Isaacson is professor of English at Modesto Junior College and author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror. EPISODE REFERENCES:Sianne NgaiMichael Löwy / “critical irrealism”Linda Williams on Psycho, essay in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: A CasebookSøren MauNancy FraserMariarosa Dalla CostaSilvia FedericiAmitav GhoshKim Stanley RobinsonJason W. MooreRuth Wilson GilmoreSophie LewisM. E. O’BrienKathi WeeksLauren BerlantFILMS DISCUSSED:PsychoDraculaNosferatuCandymanSam Raimi’s Drag Me to HellJoe Lynch’s MayhemRobert Eggers’s The WitchGillian Wallace Horvat’s I Blame SocietyRose Glass’s Saint MaudJennifer Kent’s The BabadookAri Aster’s HereditaryJane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s FairJordan Peele’s Get OutJordan Peele’s UsMariame Diallo’s MasterTim Story’s The BlackeningTimothy Covell’s Blood ConsciousCoralie Fargeat’s The SubstanceRomero’s Night of the Living DeadLamberti Bava’s DemonsThe RingJeremy Saulnier’s Murder PartyStanley Kubrick’s The ShiningPraise for the book:\"Fiercely smart.\" —Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges\"This is a book not just for fans of horror but for everyone interested in the ways films embed and communicate values, judgments, and affects.\" —Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, author of...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}