Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. INTRODUCTION: STRANGER THAN FICTION 1
4. Dialogue /Leaden 4
5. A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History 6
6. Dialogue/Starting Point 21
7. Stranger Than Paradise and the Tint Golden Age 24
8. Dialogue / Paradise 31
9. Parting Glances & The New Queer Cinema 34
10. She's Gotta Have It 45
11. Dialogue/Be Like Spike 79
12. Working Girls and Women 83
13. Inspector Errol Morris Walks The Thin Blue Line 103
14. D.O.A. 114
15. Dialogue / Batman and Sex 123
16. 1989: The Year It All Changed 126
17. Dialogue /sex and Roger 133
18. Roger and Michael and Me 137
19. Dialogue / Role Models 177
20. Slacking Off 185
21. Dialogue / Straight Outta Business 198
22. The Next Soderbergh 202
23. Dialogue/Dogs 212
24. Sons of Mean Streets 218
25. Dialogue/ $26,685 228
26. How Low can a Budget go? 234
27. Dialogue / Shannen 239
28. Amongst Jerks: Rob Weiss and the Dark Side of Overnight Success 249
29. The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994 279
30. In Hock and Staying There 299
31. Go Fiscal: Anatomy of a Back End 311
32. A Doc In The House 319
33. Dialogue/The Clerky Boys 330
34. Epilogue: It's A Wonderful Life, July 4, 1995 331
35. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 339
36. APPENDIX I 341
37. APPENDIX II 355
38. APPENDIX III 357
39. INDEX 359