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Speeding to the millennium : film & culture, 1993-1995 /
Natoli offers observations from a postmodern point of view of American culture "speeding" toward the millennium in the years 1993-1995, a time sandwiched between mounting anxieties at the beginning of the nineties and the desperate final journey of the Heaven's Gate cult in the latter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1998.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Speeding to the New Millennium 11
- Running with Gump 19
- Reality as Pulp Fiction 31
- The Abyss of the Postmodern Film Noir 47
- You're on the Air with Dr. Joy 57
- All the Virtues: the Films and Politics of Concealment 69
- The Bottom Line of Schindler's List: The Player is a Savior 85
- Nightmares of Depravity 93
- Now, That's an Alien!: Expanding the Repertoire of Alternative Descriptions 111
- "Klaatu Barada Nikto" 121
- Looking into the Abyss: Madmen and Fanatics 133
- American Maniacs: the Romance of Truly Natural Born Killers 149
- The Abyss as Reservoir: True Romance and Hard Love 163
- What Shoes Can Tell You 175
- Stranger Murders in Strange Worlds 189
- Disorder/Order 203
- Court & Culture: The Days of Our Lives with O.J. 215
- The Last Seduction: Commitment is Murder? 231
- Asking for and Getting Chaos: the Abyss of Human Sexuality 241
- Is a Foot Massage Sexual--On the Internet? 253
- Retreating to Xanadu: Technophobia. Technophilia@USA. 1995 269
- Spray and Fire 287
- Post-Apocalyptic Rust and Rubble: Waterworld 299
- Eschatology 307
- Looking into the Abyss of Other People's Lives 315
- Antediluvian Bog 337
- Ghosts with Resumes/Vampires as Agents of Change 349
- Acoustic Archaeology 365
- The Call of the Crank: Being Captivated by Nell 379
- In the Shadow of Elvis and Mildred Pierce 395.