The Phantom Blooper

A semi-autobiographical account. Vietnam soldier James "Joker" Davis in hot pursuit of the Phantom Blooper—a r

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English Pages 243 Year 1990

The Phantom Blooper

Table of contents :
Part 1: The Winter Soldiers
Part 2: Travels With Charlie
Part 3: The Proud Flesh

A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: som

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Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum—sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously

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Elizabeth Kendall’s 1981 memoir, detailing her six-year relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy, long out of print, no

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How could something as insubstantial as a ghost be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint? In this or

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Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more

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Before Superman, before Batman, there was―the Phantom! Making its debut as an American newspaper comic strip in 1936, Th

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In an exploration of the many ways that musical bodies have been trained and imagined but also concrete analyses of the

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The prostheses Peter Szendy explores―those peculiar artifacts known as musical instruments―are not only technical device

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Marc Redfield maintains that the literary genre of the Bildungsroman brings into sharp focus the contradictions of aesth

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Even people familiar with cinema believe there is no such thing as a Soviet Holocaust film. The Phantom Holocaust tells

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