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The Call of the Weird

Travels in American Subcultures ; [Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner]
Verfasser/in: Suche nach diesem Verfasser Theroux, Louis
Verfasserangabe: Louis Theroux
Jahr: 2007
Mediengruppe: B.Sach.Erw/L.sagg.ad
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No, it doesn't get much weirder than this: Thor Templar, Lord Commander of the Earth Protectorate, who claims to have killed ten aliens. Or April, the Neo-Nazi bringing up her twin daughters Lamb and Lynx (who have just formed a white-power folk group for kids called Prussian Blue), and her youngest daughter, Dresden. For a decade now, Louis Theroux has been making programs about offbeat characters on the fringes of U.S. society. Now he revisits the people who have most intrigued him to try to discover what motivates them, and why they believe the things they believe. From his Las Vegas base (where else?), Theroux calls on these assorted dreamers, schemers, and outlaws--and in the process finds out a little about the workings of his own mind. What does it mean, after all, to be weird, or "to be yourself"? Do we choose our beliefs or do our beliefs choose us? And is there something particularly weird about Americans? America, prepare yourself for a hilarious look in the mirror that has already taken the rest of the English-speaking world by storm: "Paul Theroux's son writes with just as clear an eye for character and place as his father . . . And he's funny . . .Theroux's final analysis of American weirdness is true and new." -- Literary Review (England)

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Verlag: Cambridge, Da Capo Press
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ISBN: 978-0-306-81567-6
Beschreibung: 266 pages
Schlagwörter: Journalismus, Reise, Soziologie, USA, Allgemeine Soziologie, Amerika <USA>, Gesellschaft / Theorie, Gesellschaftslehre, Gesellschaftslehre <Soziologie>, Gesellschaftstheorie, Nordamerika <USA>, Soziallehre <Soziologie>, Sozialtheorie, United States of America, Vereinigte Staaten, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
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Sprache: englisch