postmodern media culture and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson Sperb, Jason 1978- creator text bibliography Electronic books. txu 2013 2013 monographic eng 1 online resource (297 pages) 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. Jason Sperb. Includes bibliographical references and index. Anderson, Paul Thomas Criticism and interpretation Motion picture producers and directors PN1998.3.A5255 S64 2013eb 791.4302/33092 9780292752917 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10768931 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10768931 CaPaEBR 130416 ebr10768931 eng