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-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 306/.0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SterlingBruce |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States
American Dream in art |
ISBN |
1-4529-4832-1
0-8166-8141-4 0-8166-7774-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790285503321 |
Dery Mark <1959->
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 | ||
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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-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 306/.0973 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SterlingBruce |
Soggetto topico |
Popular culture - United States
American Dream in art |
ISBN |
1-4529-4832-1
0-8166-8141-4 0-8166-7774-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820733003321 |
Dery Mark <1959->
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Martin Scorsese and the American dream / / Jim Cullen |
Autore | Cullen Jim <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (181 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.430233092 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 21st century American Dream in art |
Soggetto non controllato | American Dream, filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, immigrants, immigration, cosmopolitanism, provincialism, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence, memoir, film, corruption, greed, money, power, status, elitism, upper class, poverty, social mobility |
ISBN | 1-9788-1745-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology -- Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan -- 1. The Elizabethan Era -- 2. Redeeming Dreams -- 3. Impressive Failures -- 4. Dream Critiques -- 5. Recurring Dreams -- Conclusion: Dream of Life -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794525503321 |
Cullen Jim <1962->
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] | ||
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Martin Scorsese and the American dream / / Jim Cullen |
Autore | Cullen Jim <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (181 pages) |
Disciplina | 791.430233092 |
Soggetto topico |
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 21st century American Dream in art |
Soggetto non controllato | American Dream, filmmaker, Martin Scorsese, immigrants, immigration, cosmopolitanism, provincialism, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Casino, Gangs of New York, The Age of Innocence, memoir, film, corruption, greed, money, power, status, elitism, upper class, poverty, social mobility |
ISBN | 1-9788-1745-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- A Martin Scorsese Feature Film Chronology -- Introduction: The Provincial Cosmopolitan -- 1. The Elizabethan Era -- 2. Redeeming Dreams -- 3. Impressive Failures -- 4. Dream Critiques -- 5. Recurring Dreams -- Conclusion: Dream of Life -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810058103321 |
Cullen Jim <1962->
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New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021] | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nightmare alley [[electronic resource] ] : film noir and the American dream / / Mark Osteen |
Autore | Osteen Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6556 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - United States - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century American Dream in art National characteristics, American, in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-4214-0832-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463598003321 |
Osteen Mark
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 | ||
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Nightmare alley [[electronic resource] ] : film noir and the American dream / / Mark Osteen |
Autore | Osteen Mark |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6556 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - United States - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century American Dream in art National characteristics, American, in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-4214-0832-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788207403321 |
Osteen Mark
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Nightmare alley : film noir and the American dream / / Mark Osteen |
Autore | Osteen Mark |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
Disciplina | 791.43/6556 |
Soggetto topico |
Film noir - United States - History and criticism
Motion pictures - Social aspects - United States - History - 20th century American Dream in art National characteristics, American, in motion pictures |
ISBN | 1-4214-0832-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: film noir and the American dream -- "Someone else's nightmare": exploring noir dreamscapes -- Missing persons: self-erasure and reinvention -- Vet noir: masculinity, memory and trauma -- Framed: forging noir identities -- Noir's cars: automobility and amoral space -- Nocturnes in black and blue: memory, morality and jazz melody -- Femmes vital: film noir and women's work -- Left-handed endeavor: crime, capitalism, and the Hollywood left -- Conclusion: American nightmares. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826702903321 |
Osteen Mark
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Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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