Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson 1
5. Chapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and Narrative Ambiguity in Hard Eight (1996) 32
6. Chapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in Boogie Nights (1997) 68
7. Chapter 3 If Th at Was in a Movie, I Wouldn’t Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in Magnolia (1999) 112
8. Chapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 150
9. Chapter 5 I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in Th ere Will Be Blood (2007) 188
10. Afterword On The Master 236
11. Notes 247
12. Select Bibliography 261
13. Index 273