Dead PledgesDead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U. S. culturefrom novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movieshas responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what makes our economic lives possible. Encompassing both