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The End of Cinema As We Know It and I Feel . . .: An Introduction to a Book on Nineties American Film
PART I MOVIES, MONEY, AND HISTORY
1 The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, but Not Everything Goes
2 Those Who Disagree Can Kiss Jack Valenti's Ass
3 The Hollywood History Business
4 The Man Who Wanted to Go Back
PART II THINGS AMERICAN (SORT OF)
5 "American" Cinema in the 1990s and Beyond: Whose Country's Filmmaking Is It Anyway?
6 Marketing Marginalized Cultures: The Wedding Banquet, Cultural Identities, and Independent Cinema of the 1990s
7 Hollywood Redux: All about My Mother and Gladiator
8 The Zen of Masculinity-Rituals of Heroism in The Matrix
9 Ikea Boy Fights Back: Fight Club, Consumerism, and the Political Limits of Nineties Cinema
10 The Blair Witch Project, Macbeth, and the Indeterminate End
11 Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and American Chauvinism
12 Saving Private Ryan Too Late
PART IV PICTURES AND POLITICS
13 The Confusions of Warren Beatty
14 Movie Star Presidents
15 The Fantasy Image: Fixed and Moving
16 Men with Guns: The Story John Sayles Can't Tell
17 The End of Chicano Cinema
PART V THE END OF MASCULINITY AS WE KNOW IT
18 Being Keanu
19 Woody Allen,"the Artist," and "the Little Girl"
20 Affliction: When Paranoid Male Narratives Fail
21 The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity As We Know It in Late-1990s "Feminist" Cinema
PART VI BODIES AT REST AND IN MOTION
22 Bods and Monsters: The Return of the Bride of Frankenstein
23 Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Fat Acceptance Films and the Production of Meaning
PART VII INDEPENDENTS
24 A Rant
25 The Case of Harmony Korine
26 Where Hollywood Fears to Tread: Autobiography and the Limits of Commercial Cinema
27 Smoke 'til You're Blue in the Face
PART VIII NOT FILMS EXACTLY
28 Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope
29 King Rodney: The Rodney King Video and Textual Analysis
30 Live Video
PART IX ENDGAMES
31 End of Story: The Collapse of Myth in Postmodern Narrative Film
32 Waiting for the End of the World: Christian Apocalyptic Media at the Turn of the Millennium
33 The Four Last Things: History, Technology, Hollywood, Apocalypse
34 Twenty-five Reasons Why It's All Over
Contributors
Index
Contents
The End of Cinema As We Know It and I Feel . . .: An Introduction to a Book on Nineties American Film
PART I MOVIES, MONEY, AND HISTORY
1 The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, but Not Everything Goes
2 Those Who Disagree Can Kiss Jack Valenti's Ass
3 The Hollywood History Business
4 The Man Who Wanted to Go Back
PART II THINGS AMERICAN (SORT OF)
5 "American" Cinema in the 1990s and Beyond: Whose Country's Filmmaking Is It Anyway?
6 Marketing Marginalized Cultures: The Wedding Banquet, Cultural Identities, and Independent Cinema of the 1990s
7 Hollywood Redux: All about My Mother and Gladiator
8 The Zen of Masculinity-Rituals of Heroism in The Matrix
9 Ikea Boy Fights Back: Fight Club, Consumerism, and the Political Limits of Nineties Cinema
10 The Blair Witch Project, Macbeth, and the Indeterminate End
11 Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and American Chauvinism
12 Saving Private Ryan Too Late
PART IV PICTURES AND POLITICS
13 The Confusions of Warren Beatty
14 Movie Star Presidents
15 The Fantasy Image: Fixed and Moving
16 Men with Guns: The Story John Sayles Can't Tell
17 The End of Chicano Cinema
PART V THE END OF MASCULINITY AS WE KNOW IT
18 Being Keanu
19 Woody Allen,"the Artist," and "the Little Girl"
20 Affliction: When Paranoid Male Narratives Fail
21 The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity As We Know It in Late-1990s "Feminist" Cinema
PART VI BODIES AT REST AND IN MOTION
22 Bods and Monsters: The Return of the Bride of Frankenstein
23 Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Fat Acceptance Films and the Production of Meaning
PART VII INDEPENDENTS
24 A Rant
25 The Case of Harmony Korine
26 Where Hollywood Fears to Tread: Autobiography and the Limits of Commercial Cinema
27 Smoke 'til You're Blue in the Face
PART VIII NOT FILMS EXACTLY
28 Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope
29 King Rodney: The Rodney King Video and Textual Analysis
30 Live Video
PART IX ENDGAMES
31 End of Story: The Collapse of Myth in Postmodern Narrative Film
32 Waiting for the End of the World: Christian Apocalyptic Media at the Turn of the Millennium
33 The Four Last Things: History, Technology, Hollywood, Apocalypse
34 Twenty-five Reasons Why It's All Over
Contributors
Index