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

	The End of Cinema As We Know It and I Feel ...: An Introduction to a Book on Nineties American Film	1
I	Movies, Money, and History
1	The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, but Not Everything Goes	11
2	Those Who Disagree Can Kiss Jack Valenti's Ass	23
3	The Hollywood History Business	33
4	The Man Who Wanted to Go Back	43
II	Things American (Sort Of)
5	"American" Cinema in the 1990s and Beyond: Whose Country's Filmmaking Is It Anyway?	53
6	Marketing Marginalized Cultures: The Wedding Banquet, Cultural Identities, and Independent Cinema of the 1990s	61
7	Hollywood Redux: All about My Mother and Gladiator	72
III	Four Key Films
8	The Zen of Masculinity - Rituals of Heroism in The Matrix	83
9	Ikea Boy Fights Back: Fight Club, Consumerism, and the Political Limits of Nineties Cinema	95
10	The Blair Witch Project, Macbeth, and the Indeterminate End	105
11	Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and American Chauvinism	115
12	Saving Private Ryan Too Late	131
IV	Pictures and Politics
13	The Confusions of Warren Beatty	141
14	Movie Star Presidents	150
15	The Fantasy Image: Fixed and Moving	158
16	Men with Guns: The Story John Sayles Can't Tell	168
17	The End of Chicano Cinema	175
V	The End of Masculinity As We Know It
18	Being Keanu	185
19	Woody Allen, "the Artist," and "the Little Girl"	195
20	Affliction: When Paranoid Male Narratives Fail	203
21	The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity As We Know It in Late-1990s "Feminist" Cinema	210
VI	Bodies at Rest and in Motion
22	Bods and Monsters: The Return of the Bride of Frankenstein	225
23	Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Fat Acceptance Films and the Production of Meaning	237
VII	Independents
24	A Rant	253
25	The Case of Harmony Korine	261
26	Where Hollywood Fears to Tread: Autobiography and the Limits of Commercial Cinema	269
27	Smoke 'til You're Blue in the Face	277
VIII	Not Films Exactly
28	Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope	287
29	King Rodney: The Rodney King Video and Textual Analysis	300
30	Live Video	305
IX	Endgames
31	End of Story: The Collapse of Myth in Postmodern Narrative Film	319
32	Waiting for the End of the World: Christian Apocalyptic Media at the Turn of the Millennium	332
33	The Four Last Things: History, Technology, Hollywood, Apocalypse	342
34	Twenty-five Reasons Why It's All Over	356
	Contributors	367
	Index	373