{"product_id":"born-in-flames-termite-dreams-dialectical-fairy-tales-and-pop-apocalypses-paperback","title":"Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHoward Hampton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty 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 \u003ci\u003eApocalypse Now Redux\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 of Hong Kong cinema and the neo-New Wave energy of \u003ci\u003eIrma Vep\u003c\/i\u003e to the punk heroines of Sleater-Kinney and \u003ci\u003eGhost World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorn in Flames\u003c\/i\u003e plays odd couples off one another: pitting \u003ci\u003eNatural Born Killers\u003c\/i\u003e against \u003ci\u003eForrest Gump\u003c\/i\u003e, contrasting Jean-Luc Godard with Steven Spielberg, defending David Lynch against aesthetic ideologues, invoking \u003ci\u003eThe Curse of the Mekons\u003c\/i\u003e against Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism, and introducing D. H. Lawrence to \u003ci\u003eBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u003c\/i\u003e. \"We are born in flames,\" sang the incandescent Lora Logic, and here those flames are a source of illumination as well as destruction, warmth as well as consumption. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the scorched-earth works of action-movie provocateurs Seijun Suzuki and Sam Peckinpah to the cargo cult soundscapes of Pere Ubu and the Czech dissidents Plastic People of the Universe, \u003ci\u003eBorn in Flames\u003c\/i\u003e is a headlong plunge into the passions and disruptive power of art.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.26 x 7.9 x 5.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132519485575,"sku":"9780674027329","price":46.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d035d1ca752acf0ece66f8eb0cb2b02b.webp?v=1732627038","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/born-in-flames-termite-dreams-dialectical-fairy-tales-and-pop-apocalypses-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}