The pyrotechnic insanitarium: American culture on the brink
America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists tal...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
New York
Grove Press
1999
|
| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Zusammenfassung: | America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists talk of secession from the union and worse. From the far left to the far right, talk radio to the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling, that democracy is profoundly imperiled. Are we on the eve of an Age of Unreason? Or are the premonitions of doom haunting America at the end of the twentieth century just millennial fever - the same mania that swept across Western civilization a thousand years ago? In The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium, Mark Dery brilliantly elucidates the method to our madness. One of our most astute cultural critics, he takes his pointed wit to American culture, revealing its deeper meanings |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-295) |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 295 S. Ill. |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nam a2200000 c 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV040799972 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20130409 | ||
| 007 | t | ||
| 008 | 130306s1999 a||| |||| 00||| eng d | ||
| 015 | |a B9927096 |2 dnb | ||
| 020 | |z 080211640X |9 080211640X | ||
| 020 | |z 9780802116406 |9 9780802116406 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)246269263 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV040799972 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rakwb | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-188 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 306.0973 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Dery, Mark |d 1959- |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)115540970 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a The pyrotechnic insanitarium |b American culture on the brink |c Mark Dery |
| 250 | |a 1. ed. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York |b Grove Press |c 1999 | |
| 300 | |a VIII, 295 S. |b Ill. | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-295) | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium -- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme -- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess -- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque -- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am -- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men -- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati | |
| 520 | |a America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists talk of secession from the union and worse. From the far left to the far right, talk radio to the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling, that democracy is profoundly imperiled. Are we on the eve of an Age of Unreason? Or are the premonitions of doom haunting America at the end of the twentieth century just millennial fever - the same mania that swept across Western civilization a thousand years ago? In The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium, Mark Dery brilliantly elucidates the method to our madness. One of our most astute cultural critics, he takes his pointed wit to American culture, revealing its deeper meanings | ||
| 650 | 4 | |a Popular culture / United States | |
| 651 | 4 | |a United States / Civilization / 1970- | |
| 651 | 4 | |a USA | |
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-025780089 | ||
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1804150137367298048 |
|---|---|
| any_adam_object | |
| author | Dery, Mark 1959- |
| author_GND | (DE-588)115540970 |
| author_facet | Dery, Mark 1959- |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Dery, Mark 1959- |
| author_variant | m d md |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV040799972 |
| contents | Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium -- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme -- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess -- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque -- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am -- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men -- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati |
| ctrlnum | (OCoLC)246269263 (DE-599)BVBBV040799972 |
| dewey-full | 306.0973 |
| dewey-hundreds | 300 - Social sciences |
| dewey-ones | 306 - Culture and institutions |
| dewey-raw | 306.0973 |
| dewey-search | 306.0973 |
| dewey-sort | 3306.0973 |
| dewey-tens | 300 - Social sciences |
| discipline | Soziologie |
| edition | 1. ed. |
| format | Book |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>03001nam a2200373 c 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV040799972</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20130409 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">t</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">130306s1999 a||| |||| 00||| eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="015" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">B9927096</subfield><subfield code="2">dnb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">080211640X</subfield><subfield code="9">080211640X</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="z">9780802116406</subfield><subfield code="9">9780802116406</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)246269263</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV040799972</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rakwb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-188</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">306.0973</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Dery, Mark</subfield><subfield code="d">1959-</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)115540970</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">The pyrotechnic insanitarium</subfield><subfield code="b">American culture on the brink</subfield><subfield code="c">Mark Dery</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1. ed.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">New York</subfield><subfield code="b">Grove Press</subfield><subfield code="c">1999</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">VIII, 295 S.</subfield><subfield code="b">Ill.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">n</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">nc</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-295)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium -- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme -- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess -- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque -- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am -- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men -- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists talk of secession from the union and worse. From the far left to the far right, talk radio to the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling, that democracy is profoundly imperiled. Are we on the eve of an Age of Unreason? Or are the premonitions of doom haunting America at the end of the twentieth century just millennial fever - the same mania that swept across Western civilization a thousand years ago? In The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium, Mark Dery brilliantly elucidates the method to our madness. One of our most astute cultural critics, he takes his pointed wit to American culture, revealing its deeper meanings</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Popular culture / United States</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">United States / Civilization / 1970-</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="651" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">USA</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-025780089</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| geographic | United States / Civilization / 1970- USA |
| geographic_facet | United States / Civilization / 1970- USA |
| id | DE-604.BV040799972 |
| illustrated | Illustrated |
| indexdate | 2024-07-10T00:34:08Z |
| institution | BVB |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-025780089 |
| oclc_num | 246269263 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-188 |
| owner_facet | DE-188 |
| physical | VIII, 295 S. Ill. |
| publishDate | 1999 |
| publishDateSearch | 1999 |
| publishDateSort | 1999 |
| publisher | Grove Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Dery, Mark 1959- Verfasser (DE-588)115540970 aut The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink Mark Dery 1. ed. New York Grove Press 1999 VIII, 295 S. Ill. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-295) Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium -- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme -- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess -- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque -- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am -- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men -- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati America is out of Control. It's a place where celebrity worship takes on a religious fervor; where cult prophets lead their followers to take up arms or sacrifice themselves in mass suicides; where the media are churned up by one feeding frenzy after another; where antigovernment extremists talk of secession from the union and worse. From the far left to the far right, talk radio to the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling, that democracy is profoundly imperiled. Are we on the eve of an Age of Unreason? Or are the premonitions of doom haunting America at the end of the twentieth century just millennial fever - the same mania that swept across Western civilization a thousand years ago? In The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium, Mark Dery brilliantly elucidates the method to our madness. One of our most astute cultural critics, he takes his pointed wit to American culture, revealing its deeper meanings Popular culture / United States United States / Civilization / 1970- USA |
| spellingShingle | Dery, Mark 1959- The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink Introduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium -- A User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium. 1. Have an Angst Day: The Scream Meme -- Sect. I. Dark Carnival. 2. Cotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns. 3. Return to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium. 4. Anus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess -- Sect. II. Dead Meat. 5. Mad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails. 6. Mysteries of the Organism: The Operation. 7. Nature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque -- Sect. III. Main Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere. 8. Past Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home. 9. Trendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am -- Sect. IV. The Parent Trap. 10. Grim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture. 11. The Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour. 12. Empathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men -- Sect. V. Riding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol. 13. Wild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati Popular culture / United States |
| title | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink |
| title_auth | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink |
| title_exact_search | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink |
| title_full | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink Mark Dery |
| title_fullStr | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink Mark Dery |
| title_full_unstemmed | The pyrotechnic insanitarium American culture on the brink Mark Dery |
| title_short | The pyrotechnic insanitarium |
| title_sort | the pyrotechnic insanitarium american culture on the brink |
| title_sub | American culture on the brink |
| topic | Popular culture / United States |
| topic_facet | Popular culture / United States United States / Civilization / 1970- USA |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT derymark thepyrotechnicinsanitariumamericancultureonthebrink |