The pyrotechnic insanitarium : American culture on the brink /
America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists tal...
| Основен автор: | Dery, Mark, 1959- |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Grove Press,
c1999.
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| Издание: | 1st ed. |
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Съдържание:
- Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium
- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme
- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess
- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque
- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am
- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men
- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati.