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Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
067402317X
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9780674023178
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Born in Flames : Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Film / General, History & Criticism, Popular Culture, Genres & Styles / Rock, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2007
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Music, Performing Arts, Social Science
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Hardcover
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5.5 in
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2006-043680
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Reviews
It's fitting to find a tribute to Lester Bangs halfway through this collection of film and music reviews, as Hampton appears to be a qualified successor to Bangs in the realm of pop cultural criticism. In these essays, written for alternative newspapers and art magazines, Hampton charts a freewheeling path through Hong Kong cinema, riot grrl albums and Buffy the Vampire Slayer . That last show is something of a touchstone for Hampton: in one essay, he links it to Nirvana as part of the same cultural moment; in another, he views the series through the prism of D.H. Lawrence. The book is filled with similarly unlikely pairings that wind up making perfect sense, from the connections between Dennis Potter and punk rock to a revelatory description of Meat Loaf as a B-movie version of Bruce Springsteen. And when something offends Hampton's sensibilities, watch out. Pans of Forrest Gump and the 'perfumed gunk' of Sting cut with a scathing fury. For the most part, though, Hampton chooses to devote his energies to music and movies he loves--and no matter how eclectic your tastes, there's bound to be at least one artist in this collection he'll make you want to track down., Hampton's enthusiasm--not mention his writing style--is infectious. I like this collection, its unresolved tensions between the marketplace of entertainment and the bazaar of the soul, between the critic as functionary factotum and high priest of low-culture ritual, between the writer's dread that nothing matters and the writer's need to assert that every little semiotic nuance and secondary character in Buffy , not to mention Buffy spinoff Angel , matters...In this collection, Hampton consistently reminds us that the great thing about pop culture was, and still is, its populist capacity to inspire without demeaning or deluding., [Hampton] never substitutes cleverness for incisiveness; reading Born in Flames ' alternate history of the late 20th century's zeitgeist isn't just exhilarating but illuminating. Describing an anthology of fellow netherworld traveler Lester Bangs' articles, Hampton praises a "book that could make a person want to become a critic, or remind one why he became a critic in the first place." I know what you mean, sir. I'm holding just such a volume in my hands., The 40 pieces in this anthology representing some 20 years of Hampton's writing on a broad cultural panorama are, quite simply, a hoot., Hampton's method of combining film, music, and literary references to make cases for low and high culture he admires or deplores can be overwhelming if you read this collection of essays straight through: The synthesizing brilliance Hampton has perfected over the past couple of decades is almost impossibly rich. So I suggest you let the book sit on a nearby table and regularly explore a chapter such as 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, ' his enthralling gallop through rock music as it has been depicted, included, and misunderstood in movies ranging from "Easy Rider" to "A Hard Day's Night" to "Carrie". In the latter, Hampton says, 'De Palma's "Carrie" realizes one of rock's primal fantasies: the bottomless pit of teen anomie made into macabre comedy, the ultimate eroto-destructive distillation of Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen' and 'School's Out.' And Hampton is right, as usual., Howard Hampton's exploration of Hong Kong action films, Walter Benjamin, Pere Ubu and Lars Von Trier (and what they have to do with each other) is a delight to read--his dense arpeggios of wordplay and obscure musical references vie with high pitched fan-boy enthusiasms to form an engaging ode to 'the allure of extremity.' A true critic in the manner of Pauline Kael or the late, great Lester Bangs (both of whom are subjects of excellent essays here), Hampton, like all pop culture theorists, revels in the juxtaposition of high and low. Unlike many of his ilk, he understands the potential pitfalls of swinging too far into the pop camp--he refuses to dumb anything down, and is as likely to reference Captain Beefheart or D. H. Lawrence as Buffy the Vampire Slayer...Born in Flames is a gleeful embrace of the 'poignant and hilarious'...Hampton's analyses pit the best of pop and academe against each other in a marriage made in heaven--a harmonious medium is achieved, and, in his words, 'a beautiful, slightly insane relationship is born.', Hampton's enthusiasm--not mention his writing style--is infectious. I like this collection, its unresolved tensions between the marketplace of entertainment and the bazaar of the soul, between the critic as functionary factotum and high priest of low-culture ritual, between the writer's dread that nothing matters and the writer's need to assert that every little semiotic nuance and secondary character in Buffy, not to mention Buffy spinoff Angel, matters...In this collection, Hampton consistently reminds us that the great thing about pop culture was, and still is, its populist capacity to inspire without demeaning or deluding., It's fitting to find a tribute to Lester Bangs halfway through this collection of film and music reviews, as Hampton appears to be a qualified successor to Bangs in the realm of pop cultural criticism. In these essays, written for alternative newspapers and art magazines, Hampton charts a freewheeling path through Hong Kong cinema, riot grrl albums and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. That last show is something of a touchstone for Hampton: in one essay, he links it to Nirvana as part of the same cultural moment; in another, he views the series through the prism of D.H. Lawrence. The book is filled with similarly unlikely pairings that wind up making perfect sense, from the connections between Dennis Potter and punk rock to a revelatory description of Meat Loaf as a B-movie version of Bruce Springsteen. And when something offends Hampton's sensibilities, watch out. Pans of Forrest Gump and the 'perfumed gunk' of Sting cut with a scathing fury. For the most part, though, Hampton chooses to devote his energies to music and movies he loves--and no matter how eclectic your tastes, there's bound to be at least one artist in this collection he'll make you want to track down., Howard Hampton, semireclusive resident of Apple Valley and lover of the eclectic, is one of the smartest cultural critics alive, in "Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses", a collection of his writings from "The Village Voice", "Film Comment", and "Artforum", among others, Hampton tackles everything from Saijun Suzuki films to Nirvana. One of the first Americans to cover the Hong Kong film industry's golden age and one of the few to champion "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", Hampton loves savaging criticdom's sacred cows (Jean-Luc Godard, the "Easy Rider" soundtrack) and delights in the weird juxtaposition. When he draws connections between, say, "Forrest Gump" and "Natural Born Killers" or Jimmy Cliff and Robert Mitchum, it all makes wacky, glorious sense; what seems at first prankish or showboating ultimately enlightens., Hampton's method of combining film, music, and literary references to make cases for low and high culture he admires or deplores can be overwhelming if you read this collection of essays straight through: The synthesizing brilliance Hampton has perfected over the past couple of decades is almost impossibly rich. So I suggest you let the book sit on a nearby table and regularly explore a chapter such as 'Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere,' his enthralling gallop through rock music as it has been depicted, included, and misunderstood in movies ranging from Easy Rider to A Hard Day's Night to Carrie . In the latter, Hampton says, 'De Palma's Carrie realizes one of rock's primal fantasies: the bottomless pit of teen anomie made into macabre comedy, the ultimate eroto-destructive distillation of Alice Cooper's 'Eighteen' and 'School'sOut.' And Hampton is right, as usual., Born in Flames fairly teems with such cunning punning and ticklish postulations. While some critics are correct to note that the aggregation of so much cleverness can prove exhausting, therers"salso something exhilarating about a writer who galumphs across so much ground with so nimble a tread., If any contemporary working writer can be called a critic's critic, it's Howard Hampton...If his byline isn't as familiar as it should be to a general readership, the publication of his first book, "Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses," stands to change that. A collection of 41 pieces, originally published from 1987 to 2005..."Born in Flames" finds Hampton pinging from subject to subject, writing like a man having a great time while keeping his footing atop a careering pinball...The best criticism forms an unconscious self-portrait of the critic. When Howard Hampton describes the work that matters most to him as having 'a personal touch that brings something unique and special, always that sense of discovery, of finding things they didn't anticipate and going further than they thought, ' he's perfectly described his own. -- Charles Taylor "Los Angeles Times", This is writing that exposes an imagination's workings, overlapping, a floating stew of reference points that encompasses high culture, mass culture and everything in between...[An] astonishing example of the critic's art., "Born in Flames" encompasses literature and movies, television, the jazz of Anthony Braxton and William Parker, the post-punk of Wire and Essential Logic. It's one thing to make seemingly wild connections among genres, artists and epochs, pairing "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" with D.H. Lawrence's "Studies in Classic American Literature" or "Apocalypse Now" with Nirvana. It's another to make those connections stick...Best of all, he's fun to read...An aesthetic of pleasure runs through Hampton's writing...The best criticism forms an unconscious self-portrait of the critic. When Howard Hampton describes the work that matters most to him as having 'a personal touch that brings something unique and special, always that sense of discovery, of finding things they didn't anticipate and going further than they thought, ' he's perfectly described his own., [Hampton's] an encyclopedic pop-culture jukebox, skipping from track to track faster than a caffeine-addled teen mouse-clicking through cyberspace. He links Forrest Gump to Natural Born Killers as 'magnetic poles of America's mania for order' ('American Maniacs') and finds the music of Sting wanting when compared to hillbilly twanger Hasil Adkins ('Bring Me the Head of Gordon Sumner'). The torrent of allusions presupposes an Olympian level of cultural indoctrination, and some sentences are so dense as to require a little thoughtful chewing, but Hampton offers something that grows scarcer as today's media bombardment grows in volume: fresh thinking. Knee-jerk intellectuals may find it easy to lampoon someone who takes pop this seriously, but Hampton is a writer-possibly the only one- who can analyze Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the context of D.H. Lawrence ('American Daemons') and make it work., Exhilarating, astonishing, and immensely entertaining...[One of] my favorite books of the year so far...Charged with intelligence, originality, and consummate style, constantly challenging and deeply personal. Hampton's collection has been with me since the beginning of the year, and, each time I pick it up, I still find new things to investigate. His voice is one of pop-culture delirium, a mind beset by all manner of furies., Howard Hampton, semireclusive resident of Apple Valley and lover of the eclectic, is one of the smartest cultural critics alive, in Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses , a collection of his writings from The Village Voice , Film Comment , and Artforum , among others, Hampton tackles everything from Saijun Suzuki films to Nirvana. One of the first Americans to cover the Hong Kong film industry's golden age and one of the few to champion Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Hampton loves savaging criticdom's sacred cows (Jean-Luc Godard, the Easy Rider soundtrack) and delights in the weird juxtaposition. When he draws connections between, say, Forrest Gump and Natural Born Killers or Jimmy Cliff and Robert Mitchum, it all makes wacky, glorious sense; what seems at first prankish or showboating ultimately enlightens., [Hampton] never substitutes cleverness for incisiveness; reading "Born in Flames"' alternate history of the late 20th century's zeitgeist isn't just exhilarating but illuminating. Describing an anthology of fellow netherworld traveler Lester Bangs' articles, Hampton praises a "book that could make a person want to become a critic, or remind one why he became a critic in the first place." I know what you mean, sir. I'm holding just such a volume in my hands., Born in Flames fairly teems with such cunning punning and ticklish postulations. While some critics are correct to note that the aggregation of so much cleverness can prove exhausting, there'salso something exhilarating about a writer who galumphs across so much ground with so nimble a tread., ÝHampton's¨ an encyclopedic pop-culture jukebox, skipping from track to track faster than a caffeine-addled teen mouse-clicking through cyberspace. He links Forrest Gump to Natural Born Killers as 'magnetic poles of America's mania for order' ('American Maniacs') and finds the music of Sting wanting when compared to hillbilly twanger Hasil Adkins ('Bring Me the Head of Gordon Sumner'). The torrent of allusions presupposes an Olympian level of cultural indoctrination, and some sentences are so dense as to require a little thoughtful chewing, but Hampton offers something that grows scarcer as today's media bombardment grows in volume: fresh thinking. Knee-jerk intellectuals may find it easy to lampoon someone who takes pop this seriously, but Hampton is a writer-possibly the only one- who can analyze Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the context of D.H. Lawrence ('American Daemons') and make it work. -- Keir Graff "Booklist" (11/15/2006)
Dewey Decimal
791.43/611
Table Of Content
Introduction: Meet The Furies/Pop Goes the Apocalypse I. The Glamour of Extremity 1. Fairy Tales from Strangers Cat Power--Ghost World--Lora Logic--Phoebe Gloeckner 2. Chinese Radiation Tiananmen Square--Liberation Music Orchestra--Cloudland 3. Venus, Armed Brigitte Lin 4. American Maniacs Natural Born Killers versus Forrest Gump 5. Jungle Boogie Apocalypse Now Redux 6. Metal-liad Metallica--Guns 'N Roses--Nirvana 7. Smells Like... Sonic Youth--Kurt Cobain 8. Vamp Irma Vep--Olivier Assayas 9. Screaming Target Seijun Suzuki 10. Blood Poet Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia 11. Sympathy for the Devils Assassination Movies 12. "Nebraska" 13. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere The Uneasy Ride of Rock and the New Hollywood II. Shoot the Guitar Player 14. Let Us Now Kill White Elephants Lester Bangs 15. Bring Me the Head of Gordon Sumner Sting--Hasil Adkins 16. Dueling Cadavers The Mekons contra Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 17. Aftermath Eleventh Dream Day's El Moodio 18. Build Me an L.A. Woman Los Angeles in Music and Memory 19. Do the Clam Elvis Cinema via Viva Las Vegas 20. Reification Blues The Persistence of the '70s 21. Moles on the Beach/Down in Flames Ray-Gun Suitcase/The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs 22. Mouse Trap Replica Anthony Braxton 23. Eyewitness News Wire 24. Imaginary Cities/Holiday for Strings William Parker 25. Book of Exodus Plastic People of the Universe 26. Prophecy Girls Sleater-Kinney/Cadallaca--Sarah Dougher--Sally Timms 27. Money Jungle Music Matthew Shipp III. Waterloo Sunset Boulevard 28. Such Sweet Thunder Pauline Kael, 1919-2001 29. Anatomies of Melancholy Chris Marker 30. My Own Private Benjamin Selected Writings, Volume 3: 1935-1938 and Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship 31. Blur as Genre Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express 32. Nice Gesamtkunstwerk If You Can Get It Tsui Hark/Ching Sui-tung 33. JLG/SS Godard-Spielberg, Inc. 34. Lynch Mob The Straight Story and Critical Myopia 35. Flattering the Audience American Splendor 36. Savant-Idiot, or Pull the Last Train to Dogville Lars von Trier 37. American Daemons Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Studies in Classic American Literature 38. Wrecked in El Dorado Angel 39. Whatever You Desire: Movieland and Pornotopia From The Big Sleep to Max Hardcore 40. Gold Diggers of 1935 Pennies from Heaven and London Calling 41. Apocrypha Now! An Imaginary Discography of Thomas Pynchon's Paranoids Notes Acknowledgments Credits Index
Synopsis
From the scorched-earth works of action-movie provocateurs Seijun Suzuki and Sam Peckinpah to the cargo cult soundscapes of Pere Uba and the Czech dissidents Plastic People of the Universe, 'Born in Flames' is a headlong plunge into the passions and disruptive power of art.
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