The year's work in Lebowski studies /
"A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences - westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus - and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boo...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
Ã2009.
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Colección: | Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe
- Ins (Intrinsic Models and Influences). The really big sleep : Jeffrey Lebowski as the second coming of Rip Van Winkle / Fred Ashe
- A once and future dude : The big Lebowski as medieval grail-quest / Andrew Rabin
- Dudespeak : or, how to bowl like a pornstar / Justus Nieland
- Metonymic hats and metaphoric tumbleweeds : noir literary aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The big Lebowski / Christopher Raczkowski
- The dude and the new left / Stacy Thompson
- The big Lebowski and Paul de Man : historicizing irony and ironizing historicism / Joshua Kates
- Lebowski and the ends of postmodern American comedy / Matthew Biberman
- Found document : the stranger's commentary and a note on his method / Thomas B. Byers
- No literal connection : mass commodification, U.S. militarism, and the oil industry in The big Lebowski / David Martin-Jones
- "I'll keep rolling along" : some notes on singing cowboys and bowling alleys in The big Lebowski / Edward P. Comentale
- Outs (eccentric activities and behaviors). What condition the postmodern condition is in : collecting culture in The big Lebowski / Allan Smithee
- Holding out hope for the creedence : music and the search for the real thing in The big Lebowski / Diane Pecknold
- "Fuck it, let's go bowling" : the cultural connotations of bowling in The big Lebowski / Bradley D. Clissold
- LebowskIcons : the rug, the iron lung, the tiki bar, and Busby Berkeley / Dennis Hall & Susan Grove Hall
- On the White Russian / Craig N. Owens
- Professor Dude : an inquiry into the appeal of his dudeness for contemporary college students / Richard Gaughran
- Abiding (as) animal : marmot, Pomeranian, whale, dude / David Pagano
- Logjammin' and gutterballs : masculinities in The big Lebowski / Dennis Allen
- Size matters / Judith Roof
- Brunswick = Fluxus / Aaron Jaffe
- Enduring and abiding / Jonathan Elmer
- Endnote : the goofy and the profound : a non-academic's perspective on the Lebowski achievement / William Preston Robertson.