Born in Flames : : Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses /

Born in Flames : : Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses / / Howard Hampton.

Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” his writing breaks down bar...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Hampton, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. The Glamour of Extremity
  • 1. fairy tales from strangers
  • 2. Chinese radiation
  • 3. Venus, armed
  • 4. American maniacs
  • 5. jungle boogie
  • 6. Metal-liad
  • 7. Smells like . . .
  • 8. Vamp
  • 9. Screaming target
  • 10. Blood poet
  • 11. Sympathy for the devils
  • 12.“Nebraska”
  • 13. Everybody knows this is nowhere
  • II. Shoot the Guitar Player
  • 14. Let us now kill white elephants
  • 15. Bring me the head of Gordon Sumner
  • 16. Dueling cadavers
  • 17. Aftermath
  • 18. Build me an L.A. woman
  • 19. Do the clam
  • 20. Reification blues
  • 21. Moles on the beach / down in flames
  • 22. Mouse trap replica
  • 23. Eyewitness news
  • 24. Imaginary cities / holiday for strings
  • 25. Book of exodus
  • 26. Prophecy girls
  • 27. Money jungle music
  • III. Waterloo Sunset Boulevard
  • 28. Such sweet thunder
  • 29. Anatomies of melancholy
  • 30. My own private Benjamin
  • 31. Blur as genre
  • 32. Nice Gesamtkunstwerk if you can get it
  • 33. JLG/SS
  • 34. Lynch mob
  • 35. Flattering the audience
  • 36. Savant-idiot, or pull the last train to Dogville
  • 37. American daemons
  • 38. Wrecked in El Dorado
  • 39. Whatever you desire: Movieland and Pornotopia
  • 40. Gold diggers of 1935
  • 41. Apocrypha now!
  • Sources
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index

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