American Cinema of the 2000s: Themes and Variations

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American Cinema of the 2000s AMERICAN CULTURE / AMERICAN CINEMA Each volume in the Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema series presents a group of original essays analyzing the impact of cultural issues on the cinema and the impact of the cinema in American society. Because every chapter explores a spectrum of particularly significant motion pictures and the broad range of historical events in one year, readers will gain a continuing sense of the decade as it came to be depicted on movie screens across the continent. The integration of historical and cultural events with the sprawling progression of American cinema illuminates the pervasive themes and the essential movies that define an era. Our series represents one among many possible ways of confronting the past; we hope that these books will offer a better understanding of the connections between American culture and film history. LESTER D. FRIEDMAN AND MURRAY POMERANCE SERIES EDITORS André Gaudreault, editor, American Cinema, 1890–1909: Themes and Variations Charlie Keil and Ben Singer, editors, American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations Lucy Fischer, editor, American Cinema of the 1920s: Themes and Variations Ina Rae Hark, editor, American Cinema of the 1930s: Themes and Variations Wheeler Winston Dixon, editor, American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations Murray Pomerance, editor, American Cinema of the 1950s: Themes and Variations Barry Keith Grant, editor, American Cinema of the 1960s: Themes and Variations Lester D. Friedman, editor, American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations Stephen Prince, editor, American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations Chris Holmlund, editor, American Cinema of the 1990s: Themes and Variations Timothy Corrigan, editor, American Cinema of the 2000s: Themes and Variations S C R E E N D E C A D E S American Cinema of the 2000s Themes and Variations EDITED BY TIMOTHY CORRIGAN RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS N E W B R U N S W I C K , N E W J E R S E Y, A N D L O N D O N L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S C ATA L O G I N G - I N - P U B L I C AT I O N D ATA American cinema of the 2000s : themes and variations / edited by Timothy Corrigan. p. cm. — (Screen decades) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–5281–1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–8135–5282–8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN 978–0–8135–5323–8 (e-book) 1. Motion pictures—United States—History—21st century. 2. Motion pictures— United States—Plots, themes, etc. I. Corrigan, Timothy. PN1993.5.U6A85795 2012 791.43097309'05—dc23 2011033051 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2012 by Rutgers, The State University Individual chapters copyright © 2012 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America ...