02395nam a22003731i 4500 ebr10768931 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 130416t20132013txu ob 001 0 eng d 9780292752917 (e-book) 9780292752894 (hardback) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)899045092 PN1998.3.A5255 S64 2013eb 791.4302/33092 23 Sperb, Jason, 1978- Blossoms and blood : postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson / Jason Sperb. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013] �2013 1 online resource (297 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. White-Noise Media Culture and the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson -- Chapter 1. I Remembered Your Face: Indie Cinema, Neo-noir, and -- Narrative Ambiguity in Hard Eight (1996) -- Chapter 2. I Dreamed I Was in a Hollywood Movie: Stars, Hyperreal Sounds of the 1970s, and Cinephiliac Pastiche in Boogie Nights (1997) -- Chapter 3. If That Was in a Movie, I Wouldn't Believe It: Melodramatic Ambivalence, Hypermasculinity, and the Autobiographical Impulse in Magnolia (1999) -- Chapter 4. The Art-House Adam Sandler Movie: Commodity Culture and the Ethereal Ephemerality of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) -- Chapter 5. I Have a Competition in Me: Political Allegory, Artistic Collaboration, and Narratives of Perfection in There Will Be Blood (2007) -- Afterword. On The Master -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2013). Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Anderson, Paul Thomas Criticism and interpretation. Motion picture producers and directors. Electronic books. ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10768931 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 126927 126927