The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties

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Contents The End of Cinema As We Know It and I Feel . . . : An Introduction to a Book on Nineties American Film 1 Jon Lewis I Movies, Money, and History 1 The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, but Not Everything Goes 11 Thomas Elsaesser 2 Those Who Disagree Can Kiss Jack Valenti’s Ass 23 Jon Lewis 3 The Hollywood History Business 33 Jan-Christopher Horak 4 The Man Who Wanted to Go Back 43 Murray Pomerance II Things American (Sort Of) 5 “American” Cinema in the 1990s and Beyond: Whose Country’s Filmmaking Is It Anyway? 53 Charlie Keil 6 Marketing Marginalized Cultures: The Wedding Banquet, Cultural Identities, and Independent Cinema of the 1990s 61 Justin Wyatt 7 Hollywood Redux: All about My Mother and Gladiator 72 Hilary Radner III Four Key Films 8 The Zen of Masculinity—Rituals of Heroism in The Matrix 83 Pat Mellencamp vii 9 Ikea Boy Fights Back: Fight Club, Consumerism, and the Political Limits of Nineties Cinema 95 Henry A. Giroux and Imre Szeman 10 The Blair Witch Project, Macbeth, and the Indeterminate End 105 Eric S. Mallin 11 Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and American Chauvinism 115 Frank P.Tomasulo 12 Saving Private Ryan Too Late 131 Krin Gabbard IV Pictures and Politics 13 The Confusions of Warren Beatty 141 Dana Polan 14 Movie Star Presidents 150 Thomas Doherty 15 The Fantasy Image: Fixed and Moving 158 MaureenTurim 16 Men with Guns: The Story John Sayles Can’t Tell 168 Ralph E. Rodriguez 17 The End of Chicano Cinema 175 Chon A. Noriega V The End of Masculinity As We Know It 18 Being Keanu 185 R. L. Rutsky 19 Woody Allen, “the Artist,” and “the Little Girl” 195 David R. Shumway 20 Affliction: When Paranoid Male Narratives Fail 203 Marita Sturken 21 The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity As We Know It in Late-1990s “Feminist” Cinema 210 Alexandra Juhasz viii CONTENTS VI Bodies at Rest and in Motion 22 Bods and Monsters: The Return of the Bride of Frankenstein 225 ElizabethYoung 23 Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Fat Acceptance Films and the Production of Meaning 237 Jerry Mosher VII Independents 24 A Rant 253 James Schamus 25 The Case of Harmony Korine 261 Robert Sklar 26 Where Hollywood Fears to Tread: Autobiography and the Limits of Commercial Cinema 269 Kathleen McHugh 27 Smoke ’til You’re Blue in the Face 277 Murray Smith VIII Not Films Exactly 28 Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope 287 Chuck Kleinhans 29 King Rodney: The Rodney King Video and Textual Analysis 300 Hamid Naficy 30 Live Video 305 Laura U. Marks IX Endgames 31 End of Story: The Collapse of Myth in Postmodern Narrative Film 319 Christopher Sharrett 32 Waiting for the End of the World: Christian Apocalyptic Media at the Turn of the Millennium 332 Heather Hendershot CONTENTS ix 33 The Four Last Things: History, Technology, Hollywood, Apocalypse 342 Paul Arthur 34 Twenty-five Reasons Why It’s All Over 356 Wheeler Winston Dixon Contributors 367 Index 373 x CONTENTS ...