Capitalism Hates You

Joshua Gooch is professor of English at D’Youville University in Buffalo, New York. He is author of Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity and The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy.

• Contents Introduction 1. Work Hates You: Antiwork Horror and Value Theory 2. Love Hates You: Feminist Anticapitalist Horror and Social Reproduction Theory 3. Nature Hates You: Psychedelic Eco-horror and Ecological Marxism 4. The Neighborhood Hates You: New Black Horror and Uneven Development 5. Commodities Hate You: Mass-Culture Horror and Commodity Forms 6. The Family Hates You: Elevated Horror and Family Abolition 7. Feelings Hate You: Therapeutic Horror and Emotion Work Conclusion Acknowledgments Filmography Notes Index

"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