"We may hate capitalism but not nearly as much as capitalism hates us. Linking the affect of hatred to the aesthetics of horror film, Joshua Gooch persuasively contends that twenty-first-century horror offers vital diagnostic tools. This fiercely smart book compiles a remarkably diverse archive of contemporary horror films and provides illuminating readings of those films alongside an equally diverse archive of radical political and economic thought, from Marxist-feminism to Afropessimism."-Annie McClanahan, author of Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture"Joshua Gooch’s Capitalism Hates You offers crystal-clear explications of Marxist theory and then, in seven carefully sequenced chapters, applies them in lucid and convincing ways to demonstrate how a range of contemporary horror films expresses capitalism’s hostility to life. 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 Gothic Things: Dark Enchantment and Anthropocene Anxiety
