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I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS
DRIVE-BY ESSAYS ON AMERICAN DREAD, AMERICAN DREAMS |
| By: |
Mark Dery, Bruce Sterling (Foreword) |
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Hardback |
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816677735 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816677733 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2012 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A head-spinning thrill ride through contemporary American culture |
| Synopsis: |
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 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. |
| Illustrations: |
15 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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