Speeding to the millennium : film & culture, 1993-1995
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Speeding to the millennium : film & culture, 1993-1995
（SUNY series in postmodern culture / Joseph Natoli, editor）
State University of New York Press, c1998
- hard
- pbk
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Includes index
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Natoli offers observations from a postmodern point of view of American culture "speeding" toward the millennium in the years 1993–1995, a time sandwiched between mounting anxieties at the beginning of the nineties and the desperate final journey of the Heaven's Gate cult in the latter half of the decade. Sometimes a whole life, like the Unabomber's, defies our logical grasp. What motivated Susan Smith, the mother who sent her two babies strapped into their car seats to the bottom of a lake? Why did we pay so much attention to the O.J. Simpson trial? Are we crawling toward our own end beyond the horizon of the New Millennium while at the same time thinking we are speeding to new positions in cyberspace? Speeding to the Millennium reviews the headlines and seeks the Big Screen to give some framing to the disturbingly contingent, to the seemingly senseless.
Table of Contents
Preface
Speeding to the New Millennium
Running with Gump
Reality as Pulp Fiction
The Abyss of the Postmodern Film Noir
You're on the Air with Dr. Joy
All the Virtues: the Films and Politics of Concealment
The Bottom Line of Schindler's List: The Player is a Savior
Nightmares of Depravity
Now, That's an Alien!: Expanding the Repertoire of Alternative Descriptions
"Klaatu Barada Nikto"
Looking into the Abyss: Madmen and Fanatics
American Maniacs: the Romance of Truly Natural Born Killers
The Abyss as Reservoir: True Romance and Hard Love
What Shoes Can Tell You
Stranger Murders in Strange Worlds
Disorder/Order
Court & Culture: the Days of Our Lives with O.J.
The Last Seduction: Commitment is Murder?
Asking for and Getting Chaos: the Abyss of Human Sexuality
Is a Foot Massage Sexual—On the Internet?
Retreating to Xanadu: Technophobia.Technophilia@USA. 1995
Spray and Fire
Post-Apocalyptic Rust and Rubble: Waterworld
Eschatology
Looking into the Abyss of Other People's Lives
Antediluvian Bog
Ghosts with Resumes/Vampires as Agents of Change
Acoustic Archaeology
The Call of the Crank: Being Captivated by Nell
In the Shadow of Elvis and Mildred Pierce
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"