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37. American daemons
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Studies in Classic American Literature
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Howard Hampton
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
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I. The Glamour of Extremity
- 1. fairy tales from strangers 21
- 2. Chinese radiation 35
- 3. Venus, armed 45
- 4. American maniacs 55
- 5. jungle boogie 63
- 6. Metal-liad 75
- 7. Smells like . . . 81
- 8. Vamp 87
- 9. Screaming target 93
- 10. Blood poet 102
- 11. Sympathy for the devils 107
- 12.“Nebraska” 122
- 13. Everybody knows this is nowhere 140
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II. Shoot the Guitar Player
- 14. Let us now kill white elephants 167
- 15. Bring me the head of Gordon Sumner 183
- 16. Dueling cadavers 188
- 17. Aftermath 197
- 18. Build me an L.A. woman 203
- 19. Do the clam 217
- 20. Reification blues 231
- 21. Moles on the beach / down in flames 239
- 22. Mouse trap replica 247
- 23. Eyewitness news 251
- 24. Imaginary cities / holiday for strings 256
- 25. Book of exodus 262
- 26. Prophecy girls 268
- 27. Money jungle music 275
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III. Waterloo Sunset Boulevard
- 28. Such sweet thunder 283
- 29. Anatomies of melancholy 291
- 30. My own private Benjamin 299
- 31. Blur as genre 305
- 32. Nice Gesamtkunstwerk if you can get it 311
- 33. JLG/SS 328
- 34. Lynch mob 336
- 35. Flattering the audience 342
- 36. Savant-idiot, or pull the last train to Dogville 352
- 37. American daemons 372
- 38. Wrecked in El Dorado 378
- 39. Whatever you desire: Movieland and Pornotopia 387
- 40. Gold diggers of 1935 407
- 41. Apocrypha now! 413
- Sources 427
- Acknowledgments 441
- Credits 445
- Index 451
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Introduction 1
-
I. The Glamour of Extremity
- 1. fairy tales from strangers 21
- 2. Chinese radiation 35
- 3. Venus, armed 45
- 4. American maniacs 55
- 5. jungle boogie 63
- 6. Metal-liad 75
- 7. Smells like . . . 81
- 8. Vamp 87
- 9. Screaming target 93
- 10. Blood poet 102
- 11. Sympathy for the devils 107
- 12.“Nebraska” 122
- 13. Everybody knows this is nowhere 140
-
II. Shoot the Guitar Player
- 14. Let us now kill white elephants 167
- 15. Bring me the head of Gordon Sumner 183
- 16. Dueling cadavers 188
- 17. Aftermath 197
- 18. Build me an L.A. woman 203
- 19. Do the clam 217
- 20. Reification blues 231
- 21. Moles on the beach / down in flames 239
- 22. Mouse trap replica 247
- 23. Eyewitness news 251
- 24. Imaginary cities / holiday for strings 256
- 25. Book of exodus 262
- 26. Prophecy girls 268
- 27. Money jungle music 275
-
III. Waterloo Sunset Boulevard
- 28. Such sweet thunder 283
- 29. Anatomies of melancholy 291
- 30. My own private Benjamin 299
- 31. Blur as genre 305
- 32. Nice Gesamtkunstwerk if you can get it 311
- 33. JLG/SS 328
- 34. Lynch mob 336
- 35. Flattering the audience 342
- 36. Savant-idiot, or pull the last train to Dogville 352
- 37. American daemons 372
- 38. Wrecked in El Dorado 378
- 39. Whatever you desire: Movieland and Pornotopia 387
- 40. Gold diggers of 1935 407
- 41. Apocrypha now! 413
- Sources 427
- Acknowledgments 441
- Credits 445
- Index 451