I must not think bad thoughts [[electronic resource] ] : drive-by essays on American dread, American dreams / / Mark Dery ; foreword by Bruce Sterling

• Autore: Dery Mark <1959->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 306/.0973
• Soggetto topico: Popular culture - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Civilization 1970-
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: SterlingBruce
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; 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 ; Toe 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 Führer; 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 ; Tripe 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 ; Great 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
• Sommario/riassunto: From 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
• Titolo autorizzato: I must not think bad thoughts
• ISBN: 1-4529-4832-1; 0-8166-8141-4; 0-8166-7774-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461214803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II