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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Comentale, Edward P., Jaffe, Aaron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, Ã2009.
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.