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Splatter Capital

By: Mark Steven
Narrated by: Thomas Judd
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Splatter Capital shows how a popular subgenre of cinematic horror has developed a uniquely sensitive perspective on the cycles of capitalism. It argues that the emphatically messy brand of horror mobilized in gore or "splatter" films is extremely responsive to the internal contradictions that threaten the future sustainability of capitalist accumulation. And, while responding to the prospect of that end, splatter promotes an extant truth: capitalist accumulation is and always has been a nightmare of systematized bloodshed. This book provides an account of that nightmare as told through a combination of economic history and filmic analysis. The story it tells will serve as a source of both theoretical and practical knowledge for surviving the horror movie we collectively inhabit.

©2017 Mark Steven (P)2017 Audible, Ltd Entertainment & Performing Arts Film & TV History & Criticism Social Sciences Capitalism Scary Socialism

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Wonderfully researched, read well, loved every minute of this audiobook and planning on gifting a copy to a friend. Never seen marxist analysis of horror this well done, can only hope to find anything else like it.

Superb book and reading

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one of the best books on here. I re-read it every Halloween. If you're a fan of horror films and socialism it's the book for you.

gore-tastic book on Horror and socialism.

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