Introduction: from Manchuria to Manchuria, Inc. -- California dreaming: twentieth-century corporate fictions at the end of the frontier -- "Domo arigato, Mr. Sakamoto, for the new non-union contract!": (multi)national threats and the decline of the American auto industry in Ron Howard's Gung ho -- Good times, bad times . . . you know I had my share(s): the corporation in five popular films -- A capital death: medicine, technology, and the care of the self in Don Delillo's White noise -- Family incorporated: William Gaddis's J R and the embodiment of capitalism -- Your loss is their gain: the corporate body and the corporeal body in Richard Powers's Gain -- Conclusion: corporate hegemony, cubed.