Born in Flames : Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses / Howard Hampton.
Hampton, Howard, author.
2008
PN1995 .H238 2007
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Title Born in Flames : Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses / Howard Hampton.
Author Hampton, Howard, author.
ISBN 9780674273382
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674273382
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2008]
Copyright ©2008
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (496 p.)
Item Number 10.4159/9780674273382 doi
Call Number PN1995 .H238 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/611
Summary 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 barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and often from the world at large. In the freewheeling spirit of Pauline Kael, Lester Bangs, and Manny Farber, Hampton calls up the extremist, underground tendencies and archaic forces simmering beneath the surface of popular forms. Ranging from the kinetic poetry of Hong Kong cinema and the neo-New Wave energy of Irma Vep to the punk heroines of Sleater-Kinney and Ghost World, Born in Flames plays odd couples off one another: pitting Natural Born Killers against Forrest Gump, contrasting Jean-Luc Godard with Steven Spielberg, defending David Lynch against aesthetic ideologues, invoking The Curse of the Mekons against Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, and introducing D. H. Lawrence to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. "We are born in flames," sang the incandescent Lora Logic, and here those flames are a source of illumination as well as destruction, warmth as well as consumption. From the scorched-earth works of action-movie provocateurs Seijun Suzuki and Sam Peckinpah to the cargo cult soundscapes of Pere Ubu and the Czech dissidents Plastic People of the Universe, Born in Flames is a headlong plunge into the passions and disruptive power of art.
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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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