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The magic hour : film at fin de siècle / J. Hoberman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoberman, J.
- Series:
- Culture and the moving image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Reviews.
- Genre:
- Reviews.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Introduction: All as it Had Been 1
- I. Pulp Fictions
- The Lang Twentieth Century 9
- White Dog 12
- Basic Instinct 14
- Blade Runner 18
- Kiss Me Deadly 20
- Natural Born Killers 23
- Pulp Fiction 26
- Meet "Beat" Takeshi 29
- Ashes of Time 31
- Mars Attacks! 33
- Starship Troopers 35
- San Sergio Leone 36
- II. Adventures in Dreamland
- The Long Day Closes 41
- Exotica 43
- Die Hard with a Vengeance 45
- I Shot Andy Warhol 47
- Aventurera 50
- Vertigo 51
- The Truman Show 53
- There's Something about Mary (and Mary) 55
- How Star Wars Supplanted Religion, Mutated the Species, and Changed the Movies 58
- Run Shag Run 66
- Eyes Wide Shut 68
- In the Mood for Love 71
- The Man Who Cried 73
- A.I.: The Dreamlife of Androids 76
- III. Once and Future Vanguards
- Naked Lunch and Tribulation 99 83
- Poison 86
- Avant Retro 88
- Archangel 92
- Sergei Paradjanov 94
- Lessons of Darkness 97
- Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie 98
- Dead Man 100
- Fragments - Jerusalem 102
- Mother and Son 105
- Pecker 107
- The Idiots 110
- The Wind Will Carry Us 112
- Making New Memories 114
- Mulholland Drive 118
- IV. The History of Film, the Film of History
- How the Western Was Lost 123
- Schindler's List 132
- Race Movies 136
- Jaws 139
- Quiz Show 142
- Nixon 157
- Get on the Bus 159
- Underground 161
- Point of Order 164
- Apocalypse Now and Then 167
- Back to Iraq 173
- V. Our Rock 'N' Roll President
- Clinton VS. Bush: A Lover or a Fighter? 181
- The Clinton Show 188
- Born Again Again 201
- The Remaking of the President 202
- Bob Dole, American Hero 205
- Independence Day 1996 207
- Boom's End 210
- Entertainer-in-Chief 212
- Pleasantville: Somewhere Under the Rainbow 216
- Cine Clinton: The Contender et al. 221
- The Film Critic of Tomorrow, Today 229
- Appendix Ten "10 Best" Lists, 1991-2000 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1566399955
- 1566399963
- OCLC:
- 49699257
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