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Contents
- Like Clockwork: “Bring the Jobs Back to America”
- She’s a Pretty Woman
- Nostalgia
- A Hollywood Genealogy
- Cold Calling Is a Mug’s Game
- Wall Street
- You Are the Suit You Wear
- Raymond Williams: A Brief Word
- The Patient Is on Life Support but Is Not Yet Dead
- The Baseness of/in the Superstructure
- Working Women
- Late Industrial Capitalism 1: “Making Things in America”
- Late Industrial Capitalism 2: Nostalgia and Grievance
- On Morality: A Brief Žižekian Word
- It’s Big in Japan
- The Boro Aesthetic
- Bastard 1
- A New Economy of the Prostitute and Its Dangers
- My Fair Lady, Beverly Hills Style
- All a Pretty Prostitute Needs Is Her Own Dr. Henry Higgins
- The Upside of Not Knowing Which Fork to Use
- Who’s Driving Edward Lewis?
- Bastard 2: The Hostility of the Takeover
- Oedipal Drama, Pretty Woman Style
- Making and Unmaking in the Oedipal Family Drama
- To Make Something
- Father’s Son, Mother’s Son: The Enduring Phantasmatic Father
- The Žižekian Ethics of Mick Jagger
- “It Must Be Very Difficult to Let Go of Something So Beautiful”
- To Steal, to Make of Steel
- Acknowledgments
- Author Biography