Speeding to the millennium : film & culture, 1993-1995 / Joseph Natoli.

Includes index.

Speeding to the New Millennium 11 -- Running with Gump 19 -- Reality as Pulp Fiction 31 -- The Abyss of the Postmodern Film Noir 47 -- You're on the Air with Dr. Joy 57 -- All the Virtues: the Films and Politics of Concealment 69 -- The Bottom Line of Schindler's List: The Player is a Savior 85 -- Nightmares of Depravity 93 -- Now, That's an Alien!: Expanding the Repertoire of Alternative Descriptions 111 -- "Klaatu Barada Nikto" 121 -- Looking into the Abyss: Madmen and Fanatics 133 -- American Maniacs: the Romance of Truly Natural Born Killers 149 -- The Abyss as Reservoir: True Romance and Hard Love 163 -- What Shoes Can Tell You 175 -- Stranger Murders in Strange Worlds 189 -- Disorder/Order 203 -- Court & Culture: The Days of Our Lives with O.J. 215 -- The Last Seduction: Commitment is Murder? 231 -- Asking for and Getting Chaos: the Abyss of Human Sexuality 241 -- Is a Foot Massage Sexual--On the Internet? 253 -- Retreating to Xanadu: Technophobia. Technophilia@USA. 1995 269 -- Spray and Fire 287 -- Post-Apocalyptic Rust and Rubble: Waterworld 299 -- Eschatology 307 -- Looking into the Abyss of Other People's Lives 315 -- Antediluvian Bog 337 -- Ghosts with Resumes/Vampires as Agents of Change 349 -- Acoustic Archaeology 365 -- The Call of the Crank: Being Captivated by Nell 379 -- In the Shadow of Elvis and Mildred Pierce 395.

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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. Speeding to the Millennium reviews the headlines and seeks the Big Screen to give some framing to the disturbingly contingent, to the seemingly senseless.

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