The Bad Trip: Dark Omens, New Worlds and the End of the Sixties
Autor James Rileyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 aug 2019
Beneath
the
psychedelic
utopianism
of
the
sixties
lay
a
dark
seam
of
apocalyptic
thinking
that
seemed
to
rupture
into
violence
and
despair
by
1969.
Literary
and
cultural
historian
James
Riley
descends
into
this
underworld
and
traces
the
historical
and
conspiratorial
threads
connecting
art,
film,
poetry,
politics,
murder
and
revolt.
The
Beatles
and
the
Rolling
Stones,
the
Manson
Family
and
Roman
Polanski,
ley-line
hunters
and
Illuminati
believers,
Aldous
Huxley,
Joan
Didion
and
the
Beat
poets,
radical
protest
movements
and
occult
groups
all
come
together
in
Riley’s
gripping
narrative.
Steeped
in
the
hopes,
dreams
and
anxieties
of
the
late
1960s
and
early
’70s,The
Bad
Triptells
the
strange
stories
of
some
of
the
period’s
most
compelling
figures
as
they
approached
the
end
of
an
era
and
imagined
new
worlds
ahead.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781785784538
ISBN-10: 1785784536
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 8 page colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1785784536
Pagini: 416
Ilustrații: 8 page colour plate section
Dimensiuni: 135 x 216 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Icon Books Ltd
Colecția Icon Books Ltd
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
James
Rileyis
a
Fellow
of
English
Literature
at
Girton
College,
Cambridge,
focusing
on
modern
and
contemporary
literature,
popular
film
and
1960s
culture.
He
co-editedThe
1960s:
A
Decade
of
Modern
British
Fiction(Bloomsbury,
2018).
He
also
makes
films
and
performs
spoken
word
poetry.
Recenzii
‘Dense
with
conspiracies,
chaos
and
apocalyptic
death
drives,
The
Bad
Trip
is
a
history
that
makes
perfect
sense
when
the
sky
is
falling
down.’
'A fascinating look at one of the most intoxicating eras of pop - when flower power blossomed and then wilted as it gave way to its darker side.'
'The Bad Tripis a good trip: an essay on the power of art in dark times. In our own dark times, half a century later, that’s something worth reading.'
'Brilliant ... a total trip"
'A useful guidebook to the self-regarding Sixties counterculture'
'A fresh take on an altogether over-discussed, if rarely very carefully analysed, era. His chapter The Omega Men is particularly good at steering a path through cinema and publications that predicted a bleak future, or suggested how that might be averted.'
'Essential reading for enthusiasts of 1960s transatlantic counter-culture, written with verve and brio. Riley is an expert tour guide'
‘A dazzling account of the decline and fall of the 60s dream, forging links between US and UK countercultural practices.’
'While the depth of knowledge is impressive ... it's the joining of the (micro) dots linking occult energies to these events which will keep 60s obsessives up at night'
‘Suffice to say this is one timely and captivating tome … Impressively in-depth, wide-reaching and thought-provoking. *****’
'Refreshingly deep and provocatively different […] reinstalling the vanishing art of good writing'
'A fascinating look at one of the most intoxicating eras of pop - when flower power blossomed and then wilted as it gave way to its darker side.'
'The Bad Tripis a good trip: an essay on the power of art in dark times. In our own dark times, half a century later, that’s something worth reading.'
'Brilliant ... a total trip"
'A useful guidebook to the self-regarding Sixties counterculture'
'A fresh take on an altogether over-discussed, if rarely very carefully analysed, era. His chapter The Omega Men is particularly good at steering a path through cinema and publications that predicted a bleak future, or suggested how that might be averted.'
'Essential reading for enthusiasts of 1960s transatlantic counter-culture, written with verve and brio. Riley is an expert tour guide'
‘A dazzling account of the decline and fall of the 60s dream, forging links between US and UK countercultural practices.’
'While the depth of knowledge is impressive ... it's the joining of the (micro) dots linking occult energies to these events which will keep 60s obsessives up at night'
‘Suffice to say this is one timely and captivating tome … Impressively in-depth, wide-reaching and thought-provoking. *****’
'Refreshingly deep and provocatively different […] reinstalling the vanishing art of good writing'
Descriere
An
intriguing,
first-of-its-kind
cultural
history
of
the
turn
of
the
1960s