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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Ethan Coen; Joel Coen; Ethan - The big Lebowski Coen; Joel - The big Lebowski Coen |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward P Comentale; Aaron Jaffe |
| ISBN: | 9780253353801 0253353807 9780253221360 0253221366 |
| OCLC Number: | 313659372 |
| Description: | xii, 491 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe -- Ins (Intrinsic Models and Influences). The really big sleep : Jeffrey Lebowski as the second coming of Rip Van Winkle / Fred Ashe -- A once and future dude : The big Lebowski as medieval grail-quest / Andrew Rabin -- Dudespeak : or, how to bowl like a pornstar / Justus Nieland -- Metonymic hats and metaphoric tumbleweeds : noir literary aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The big Lebowski / Christopher Raczkowski -- The dude and the new left / Stacy Thompson -- The big Lebowski and Paul de Man : historicizing irony and ironizing historicism / Joshua Kates -- Lebowski and the ends of postmodern American comedy / Matthew Biberman -- Found document : the stranger's commentary and a note on his method / Thomas B. Byers -- No literal connection : mass commodification, U.S. militarism, and the oil industry in The big Lebowski / David Martin-Jones -- "I'll keep rolling along" : some notes on singing cowboys and bowling alleys in The big Lebowski / Edward P. Comentale -- Outs (eccentric activities and behaviors). What condition the postmodern condition is in : collecting culture in The big Lebowski / Allan Smithee -- Holding out hope for the creedence : music and the search for the real thing in The big Lebowski / Diane Pecknold -- "Fuck it, let's go bowling" : the cultural connotations of bowling in The big Lebowski / Bradley D. Clissold -- LebowskIcons : the rug, the iron lung, the tiki bar, and Busby Berkeley / Dennis Hall & Susan Grove Hall -- On the White Russian / Craig N. Owens -- Professor Dude : an inquiry into the appeal of his dudeness for contemporary college students / Richard Gaughran -- Abiding (as) animal : marmot, Pomeranian, whale, dude / David Pagano -- Logjammin' and gutterballs : masculinities in The big Lebowski / Dennis Allen -- Size matters / Judith Roof -- Brunswick = Fluxus / Aaron Jaffe -- Enduring and abiding / Jonathan Elmer -- Endnote : the goofy and the profound : a non-academic's perspective on the Lebowski achievement / William Preston Robertson. |
| Other Titles: | Year's work in The big Lebowski studies |
| Responsibility: | edited by Edward P. Comentale & Aaron Jaffe. |
Abstract:
A massive underground sensation, "The Big Lebowski" has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. This book addresses the film's influences - westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s,
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