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15%OFFHoward Hampton - Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses - 9780674027329 - V9780674027329
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Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses

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Description for Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses Paperback. Bridging the space between "Apocalypse Now Redux" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," this work intends to break down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and from the world at large. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 132 x 200 x 80. Weight in Grams: 544.

Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hard-nosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” his writing breaks down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have segregated art forms from each other and often from the world at large.

In the freewheeling spirit of Pauline Kael, Lester Bangs, and Manny Farber, Hampton calls up the extremist, underground tendencies and archaic forces simmering beneath the surface of popular forms. Ranging from the kinetic poetry ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674027329
SKU
V9780674027329
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About Howard Hampton
Howard Hampton has written for Film Comment, Artforum, the Believer, the Village Voice, L.A. Weekly, Black Clock, the Boston Globe, and the New York Times, among other publications.

Reviews for Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
Born in Flames encompasses literature and movies, television, the jazz of Anthony Braxton and William Parker, the post-punk of Wire and Essential Logic. It’s one thing to make seemingly wild connections among genres, artists and epochs, pairing Buffy the Vampire Slayer with D.H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature or Apocalypse Now with Nirvana. It’s another to make those connections ... Read more

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