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200 10$aI must not think bad thoughts$b[electronic resource] $edrive-by essays on American dread, American dreams /$fMark Dery ; foreword by Bruce Sterling
210   $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2012
215   $a1 online resource (337 p.)
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references.
327   $aCover; Contents; Foreword: I Must Not Read Bad Thoughts; Introduction; AMERICAN MAGIC, AMERICAN DREAD; Dead Man Walking: What Do Zombies Mean?; Gun Play: An American Tragedy in Three Acts; Mysterious Stranger: Grandpa Twain's Dark Side; Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back. On Lady Gaga; Jocko Homo: How Gay Is the Super Bowl?; Wimps, Wussies, and W. Masculinity, American Style; Stardust Memories: How David Bowie Killed the '60s, Ushered in the '70s, and, for One Brief Shining Moment, Made the Mullet Hip; When Animals Attack!: An Aesop's Fable about Anthropomorphism
327   $aToe Fou: Subliminally Seduced by Madonna's Big Toe Shoah Business; The Triumph of the Shill: Fascist Branding; Endtime for Hitler: On the Downfall Parodies and the Inglorious Return of Der Fu?hrer; MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE: Making Sense of the Digital Age; World Wide Wonder Closet: On Blogging; (Face)Book of the Dead; Straight, Gay, or Binary?: HAL Comes Out of the Cybernetic Closet; Word Salad Surgery: Spam, Deconstructed; Slashing the Borg: Resistance Is Fertile; Things to Come: Xtreme Kink and the Future of Porn; TRIPE SOUP FOR THE SOUL: Religion and All Its Works and Ways
327   $aTripe Soup for the Soul: The Daily Affirmation Pontification: On the Death of the Pope; The Prophet Margin: Jack Chick's Comic-Book Apocalypse; 2012 Carnival of Bunkum; The Vast Santanic Conspiracy; ANATOMY LESSON: The Grotesque, the Gothic, and Other Dark Matters; Open Wide: Dental Horror; Gray Matter: The Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Severed Head; Been There, Pierced That: Apocalypse Culture and the Escalation of Subcultural Hostilities; Death to All Humans!: The Church of Euthanasia's Modest Proposal
327   $aGreat Caesar's Ghost: On the Crypt of the Capuchins Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: On La Specola's Anatomical Venuses; Goodbye, Cruel Words: On the Suicide Note as a Literary Genre; Cortex Envy: Bringing Up Baby Einstein; Acknowledgments; Notes; Publication History
330   $aFrom the cultural critic Wired called "provocative and cuttingly humorous" comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions of the self-the gothic, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque-Mark Dery makes sense of the cultural dynamics of the American madhouse early in the twenty-first century. Here are essays on the pornographic fantasies of Star Trek fans, Facebook as Limbo of the Lost, George W. Bush's fear of his inner queer, the t
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