3 The Hollywood History Business

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. The End of Cinema As We Know It and I Feel . . .: An Introduction to a Book on Nineties American Film 1
4. PART I MOVIES, MONEY, AND HISTORY
5. 1 The Blockbuster: Everything Connects, but Not Everything Goes 9
6. 2 Those Who Disagree Can Kiss Jack Valenti’s Ass 23
7. 3 The Hollywood History Business 33
8. 4 The Man Who Wanted to Go Back 43
9. PART II THINGS AMERICAN (SORT OF)
10. 5 “American” Cinema in the 1990s and Beyond: Whose Country’s Filmmaking Is It Anyway? 51
11. 6 Marketing Marginalized Cultures: The Wedding Banquet, Cultural Identities, and Independent Cinema of the 1990s 61
12. 7 Hollywood Redux: All about My Mother and Gladiator 72
13. 8 The Zen of Masculinity—Rituals of Heroism in The Matrix 83
14. 9 Ikea Boy Fights Back: Fight Club, Consumerism, and the Political Limits of Nineties Cinema 95
15. 10 The Blair Witch Project, Macbeth, and the Indeterminate End 105
16. 11 Empire of the Gun: Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and American Chauvinism 115
17. 12 Saving Private Ryan Too Late 131
18. PART IV PICTURES AND POLITICS
19. 13 The Confusions of Warren Beatty 139
20. 14 Movie Star Presidents 150
21. 15 The Fantasy Image: Fixed and Moving 158
22. 16 Men with Guns: The Story John Sayles Can’t Tell 168
23. 17 The End of Chicano Cinema 175
24. PART V THE END OF MASCULINITY AS WE KNOW IT
25. 18 Being Keanu 183
26. 19 Woody Allen,“the Artist,” and “the Little Girl” 195
27. 20 Affliction: When Paranoid Male Narratives Fail 203
28. 21 The Phallus UnFetished: The End of Masculinity As We Know It in Late-1990s “Feminist” Cinema 210
29. PART VI BODIES AT REST AND IN MOTION
30. 22 Bods and Monsters: The Return of the Bride of Frankenstein 223
31. 23 Having Their Cake and Eating It Too: Fat Acceptance Films and the Production of Meaning 237
32. PART VII INDEPENDENTS
33. 24 A Rant 251
34. 25 The Case of Harmony Korine 261
35. 26 Where Hollywood Fears to Tread: Autobiography and the Limits of Commercial Cinema 269
36. 27 Smoke ’til You’re Blue in the Face 277
37. PART VIII NOT FILMS EXACTLY
38. 28 Pamela Anderson on the Slippery Slope 285
39. 29 King Rodney: The Rodney King Video and Textual Analysis 300
40. 30 Live Video 305
41. PART IX ENDGAMES
42. 31 End of Story: The Collapse of Myth in Postmodern Narrative Film 317
43. 32 Waiting for the End of the World: Christian Apocalyptic Media at the Turn of the Millennium 332
44. 33 The Four Last Things: History, Technology, Hollywood, Apocalypse 342
45. 34 Twenty-five Reasons Why It’s All Over 356
46. Contributors 367
47. Index 373