LEADER 05741nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910790285503321 005 20230801222710.0 010 $a1-4529-4832-1 010 $a0-8166-8141-4 010 $a0-8166-7774-3 035 $a(CKB)2670000000180157 035 $a(EBL)902545 035 $a(OCoLC)792688066 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000636795 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354281 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000636795 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10681065 035 $a(PQKB)11269662 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC902545 035 $a(OCoLC)850871564 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29933 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL902545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555675 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526033 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000180157 100 $a20120105d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$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.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7773-5 320 $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 theme-parking of the Holocaust, the homoerotic subtext of the Super Bowl, the hidden agendas of IQ tests, Santa's secret kinship with Satan, the sadism of dentists, Hitler's afterlife on YouTube, the sexual identity of 2001's HAL, the suicide note considered as a literary genre, the surrealist poetry of robot spam, the zombie apocalypse, Lady Gaga, the Church of Euthanasia, toy guns in the dream lives of American boys, and the polymorphous perversity of Madonna's big toe. Dery casts a critical eye on the accepted order of things, boldly crossing into the intellectual no-fly zones demarcated by cultural warriors on both sides of America's ideological divide: controversy-phobic corporate media, blinkered academic elites, and middlebrow tastemakers. Intellectually omnivorous and promiscuously interdisciplinary, Dery's writing is a generalist's guilty pleasure in an age of nano specialization and niche marketing. From Menckenesque polemics on American society and deft deconstructions of pop culture to unflinching personal essays in which Dery turns his scalpel-sharp wit on himself ,I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts is a head-spinning intellectual ride through American dreams and American nightmares. 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 606 $aAmerican Dream in art 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970- 615 0$aPopular culture 615 0$aAmerican Dream in art. 676 $a306/.0973 700 $aDery$b Mark$f1959-$0144257 701 $aSterling$b Bruce$0474999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790285503321 996 $aI must not think bad thoughts$93688935 997 $aUNINA