Apocrypha Now!

[rich]

funny, but this kinda stuff exudes arrogant pretension up the wazoo

On 1/16/07, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hampton, Howard.  "Apocrypha Now!  An Imaginary
>    Discography of Thomas Pynchon's Paranoids."
>    Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical
>    Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses.  Cambridge, MA:
>    Harvard UP, 2007.  413-26
>
> Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of
> American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely
> hardnosed 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 of Hong Kong cinema
> and the neo-New Wave energy of Irma Vep, to the punk
> heroines of Sleater-Kinney and Ghost World, Born in
> Flames plays odd couples off one another: pitting
> Natural Born Killers against Forrest Gump, contrasting
> Jean-Luc Godard with Steven Spielberg, defending David
> Lynch against aesthetic ideologues, invoking The Curse
> of the Mekons against Fredric Jameson's Postmodernism,
> and introducing D. H. Lawrence to Buffy the Vampire
> Slayer. "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.
>
> From 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, Born in
> Flames is a headlong plunge into the passions and
> disruptive power of art.
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAMBOR.html
>
> Contents
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAMBOR.html?show=contents
>
> Introduction
>
> http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/HAMBOR_excerpt.pdf
>
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