| Speeding to the Millennium: Film and Culture 1993-1995 Contributor(s): Natoli, Joseph (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791437280 ISBN-13: 9780791437285 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.234 |
| LCCN: 97-26977 |
| Series: Suny Series, Postmodern Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.89" W x 8.96" (1.23 lbs) 413 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Topical - Millennium |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Natoli offers observations from a postmodern point of view of American culture speeding toward the millennium in the years 1993-1995, a time sandwiched between mounting anxieties at the beginning of the nineties and the desperate final journey of the Heaven's Gate cult in the latter half of the decade. Sometimes a whole life, like the Unabomber's, defies our logical grasp. What motivated Susan Smith, the mother who sent her two babies strapped into their car seats to the bottom of a lake? Why did we pay so much attention to the O.J. Simpson trial? Are we crawling toward our own end beyond the horizon of the New Millennium while at the same time thinking we are speeding to new positions in cyberspace? Speeding to the Millennium reviews the headlines and seeks the Big Screen to give some framing to the disturbingly contingent, to the seemingly senseless. |