num_pages: 295
description: Leading us through millennial America, from mainstream culture to the pop underground, the author delivers his thesis--that phenomena such as Disney, Nike, and teenage tribalism, are expressions of a broad-based social anxiety and that the reasons for the anxiety are both real and imagined.
language: English
title: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink
titlecomplete: The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink
genres: Politics, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Essays, Cultural Studies, Sociology, History, Society
ratings_count: 127
publisher: Grove Pr