{"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/535654e1\n\nJoshua 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.\n\nJohanna Isaacson is professor of English at Modesto Junior College and author of Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror.\nEPISODE REFERENCES:\nSianne Ngai\nMichael Löwy / “critical irrealism”\nLinda Williams on Psycho, essay in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho: A Casebook\nSøren Mau\nNancy Fraser\nMariarosa Dalla Costa\nSilvia Federici\nAmitav Ghosh\nKim Stanley Robinson\nJason W. Moore\nRuth Wilson Gilmore\nSophie Lewis\nM. E. O’Brien\nKathi Weeks\nLauren Berlant\n\nFILMS DISCUSSED:\nPsycho\nDracula\nNosferatu\nCandyman\nSam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell\nJoe Lynch’s Mayhem\nRobert Eggers’s The Witch\nGillian Wallace Horvat’s I Blame Society\nRose Glass’s Saint Maud\nJennifer Kent’s The Babadook\nAri Aster’s Hereditary\nJane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair\nJordan Peele’s Get Out\nJordan Peele’s Us\nMariame Diallo’s Master\nTim Story’s The Blackening\nTimothy Covell’s Blood Conscious\nCoralie Fargeat’s The Substance\nRomero’s Night of the Living Dead\nLamberti Bava’s Demons\nThe Ring\nJeremy Saulnier’s Murder Party\nStanley Kubrick’s The Shining\n\nPraise for the book:\n\"Fiercely smart.\" —Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges\n\"This is a book not just for fans of horror but for everyone interested in the ways films embed and communicate values, judgments, and...","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}