Utopia's debris
Subtitle: selected essays
By: by Gary Indiana.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780465002481
Description: "One of America's leading critics, Gary Indiana has written essays on nearly every aspect of American culture. Utopia's Debris comprises selections of his very best work from the past fifteen years, revealing him to be an enormously acute, frequently scabrous, and always brilliant observer of the best and worst America has to offer."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Consists of articles and essays mainly written between 1996 and 2008.
Table of contents: title: Desertshore. Barbara Kruger: the war at home; title: Kindergarten governor; title: Murdering the dead; title: Pretty vacant; title: Gavin Lambert (1924-2005): the goodbye person; title: The infernal evidence. Even cowboys get the blues; title: The madness of the day; title: Testosterone express; title: Homicide can be such a drag; title: About Mary Woronov: puzzle-headed woman; title: Daniel Schmid's La paloma; title: William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997); title: That awful mess at the governor's mansion; title: Surrealisms and the power of emotion.  Of Caroline Blackwood; title: Wurlitzer's wiles; title: Bulle Ogier, phenomenon without a pause; title: Cunning, exile, contingency; title: Germany inside him: Rainer Fassbinder and the spell of dystopia; title: Vienna III, kundmanngasse 19; title: Major motifs; title: Curzio Malaparte; title: Conjuror of St Germain; title: Emmanuel Carrère's counterfeiters; title: And the fog comes rolling in. The excremental republic; title: Überdolls; title: The gearworks of doom; title: Don't buy us with sorry after burning down the barn; title: Sublime pariah: Céline's voyages into the whirlwind; title: Amnesia and its double; title: Blame it on brio; title: No such thing as paranoia: on the culture of conspiracism; title: Opus heyday; title: Disorganized conspiracy; title: Utopia's debris. Barbet Schroeder's Terror's advocate; title: Susan Sontag (1933-2004); title: Robert Bresson: hidden in plain sight; title: Simenon l'incroyable; title: Weill, Brecht, Mahagonny.