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  • By: Mark Steven
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Summary

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
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gore-tastic book on Horror and socialism.

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.

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Superb book and reading

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.

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Excellent, if you love horror

deep book, about what our favorite horror movies are about.
I’m a fan of repeater books and just bought it because it was there. I liked it so much I got the audio version so i can listen to it while making pizza.

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