Contents
1. Introduction: Facing the Nineties
Part I: Mapping a Position, 1980-1982
2. Bad Movies
3. Three American Abstract Sensationalists
4. Vulgar Modernism
5. Veni, Vidi, Video...
6. Love & Death in the American Supermarketplace
Part II: Personalities and Oeuvres
7. The Star Who Fell to Earth
8. The Show Biz Messiah
9. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly King
10. Martin Scorsese and the Comedy of Public Life
11. His Parsifal:Following the Syberbergenlied
12. Tarkovsky Arrives
13. Ritwik Ghatak: A Cloud-Capped Star
14. Hou Hsiao-hsien: The Edge of the World
15. Harold Rosenberg’s Magic Act
16. After the Gold Rush: Chaplin at One Hundred
Part III: Vanguards
17. The Super-80s
18. Paik’s Peak
19. Teen Angel
20. Once Upon a Time in Amerika: Straub/Huillet/Kafka
21. Show Time
22. What’s Art Got to Do with It?
23. Ghosts
24. The Purple Rose of Soho
25. “He-e-ere’s Jean-ee”: TV à la Godard
26. Pagan Rhapsodies
27. As the Third World Turns
28. Avant to Hold Your Hand
29. Fear and Trembling at the Whitney Biennial
30. Bon Voyeur: Andy Warhol’s Silver Screen
31. Raped and Abandoned: Yoko Ono’s Forgotten Masterpiece
32. Jacobs’ Ladder
33. Jack Smith, 1932-1989
Part IV: Reviews and Appreciations, 1984-1989
34. White Boys: Lucas, Spielberg, and the Temple of Dumb
35. All Shook Up
36. Stranger Than Paradise
37. Double is My Business
38. The End of Science Fiction
39. Ralph and Alice and Ed and Trixie
40. Shoah: The Being of Nothingness
41. Only Make Believe
42. Still Krazy after All These Years
43. Blue Velvet
44. At War with Ourselves
45. Full Metal Jacket: Dressed to Kill
46. The Other, Woman
47. Written on the Wind
48. London Burning
49. Divided City
50. Name That ’Toon
51. Hal Willner Plays Disney: Never Mind the Mouse Ears
52. Lost in America: Jean Baudrillard, Extraterrestrial
53. The Last Western
54. Suddenly, Last Summer
55. Street Scene
56. New York Film Festival: Societies of the Spectacle
57. Brave New Image World
58. Noh Exit
59. The Worst Years of Our Lives
Part V: Trips
60. Two Weeks in Another Town: India and its Film Festival
61. Havana 1983
62. Tokyo 1985
63. Budapest 1986
64. What’s Stranger than Paradise? Or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the ’Burbs
65. The Last Picture Show
Index
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