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100 1 $aDery, Mark,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94091583
245 14 $aThe pyrotechnic insanitarium :$bAmerican culture on the brink of the millennium /$cMark Dery.
260 $aNew York :$bGrove Press,$c1999.
263 $a9902
300 $aviii, 295 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium --$tA User's Guide to The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium.$g1.$tHave an Angst Day: The Scream Meme --$gSect. I.$tDark Carnival.$g2.$tCotton Candy Autopsy: Deconstructing Psycho-Killer Clowns.$g3.$tReturn to Abnormalcy: Gaffes, Geeks, and Freaks at the Fin-de-Millennium.$g4.$tAnus Horribilis: Jim Carrey's Excremental Excess --$gSect. II.$tDead Meat.$g5.$tMad Cows and Englishmen: Reading Damien Hirst's Entrails.$g6.$tMysteries of the Organism: The Operation.$g7.$tNature Morte: Formaldehyde Photography and the New Grotesque --$gSect. III.$tMain Street, U.S.A.: The Public Sphere.$g8.$tPast Perfect: Disney Celebrates Us Home.$g9.$tTrendspotting: I Shop, Therefore I Am --$gSect. IV.$tThe Parent Trap.$g10.$tGrim Fairy Tales: Renee French's Kinderculture.$g11.$tThe Unheimlich Maneuver: The Doll Hour.$g12.$tEmpathy Bellies: Cloned Sheep and Pregnant Men --$gSect. V.$tRiding Shotgun with the Doom Patrol.$g13.$tWild Nature, Wired Nature: The Unabomber Meets the Digerati.
505 80 $g14.$tSpace Oddities: Heaven's Gate and Homo Cyber - Strange Alliances on the Level Above Human.
520 $aAmerica 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.
520 8 $aFrom 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?
520 8 $aIn 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 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140482
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139948
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