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Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to 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 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.

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• Full title: Born in Flames
• Subtitle: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
• Author: Howard Hampton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496
• EAN: 9780674027329
• ISBN: 0674027329
• ID: 04635096
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 200 × 80 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. May 2008

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