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vii Like Soderbergh’s work, this book represents a collaboration with many talented and generous people. Thanks to my irreplaceable colleagues in the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham, in particular Paul Grainge, Roberta Pearson, Julian Stringer, Luke Robinson, Gianluca Sergi, and Paul McDonald. Many former colleagues at other institutions encouraged the project during its long gestation, including Dan Wojcik and Kathleen Karlyn at the University of Oregon; Edward Jones, Leonard Leff, and Jeff Walker at Oklahoma State University; Jack Boozer and Niklas Vollmer at Georgia State University; Brad Prager at the University of Missouri; and Grace An at Oberlin College. Jim Burr at the University of Texas Press showed unimaginable patience for the finished product. Special thanks also to those who read draft chapters or gave other essential support, especially Rikke Schubart, Stephanie Lewthwaite, Paul Jenner, Sharon Monteith, Jake Smith, Chi-Yun Shin, Pam Golden, Kevin Gallagher, and Karen Eng. Further thanks to close friends who endured my ceaseless earbending about Soderbergh’s work and other film-culture esoterica, including Michael Pebworth and Lindsay Schubert, Aron Golden and Lisa Schultz, Nate Nichols and Fran Salafia, Peter and Cindy Witkow, Luci Hackbert and Seth Friedman, Andy Deck, Jon Burgerman, Bernard Radfar, Kirstin Stiebel, Erich Reed, and Susannah Beck. Thanks as well to Carl Spence of the Seattle International Film Festival for a very informative interview about festival programming that has helped me anchor some of this book’s claims. Portions of two chapters were previously published in different forms. Part of Chapter 2 appeared as “Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and Transhistorical Taste Cultures” in American Acknowledgments viii Another Steven Soderbergh Experience Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood, and Beyond (edited by Yannis Tzioumakis, Claire Molloy, and Geoff King, London: Routledge, 2012). A portion of Chapter 5 appeared as “Male Style and Race in the NeoRetro Heist Film” in Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema (edited by Timothy Shary, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012). Thanks to the editors for their permission to include this material. Most essentially, thanks to Steven Soderbergh for his detailed factchecking of the draft manuscript, and for granting me much of his valuable time for a wide-ranging discussion on filmmaking and art. Finally, my eternal gratitude to Elaine Roth for sharing ten years of Soderbergh’s oeuvre and other stimuli, and for graciously leaving the project in my capricious hands. [3.87.209.162] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:06 GMT) Another Steven Soderbergh Experience THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...