Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson /

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Main Author: Sperb, Jason, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Chapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and
  • Narrative Ambiguity in Hard Eight (1996)
  • Chapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in Boogie Nights (1997)
  • Chapter 3. If That Was in a Movie, I Wouldn't Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in Magnolia (1999)
  • Chapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
  • Chapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007)
  • Afterword. On The Master
  • Notes
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.