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    American Cinema of the 1990s
    Themes and Variations

    Chris Holmlund (Edited by), Krin Gabbard (Contributions by), Chris Holmlund (Contributions by), Linda Mizejewski (Contributions by), Sharon Willis (Contributions by), Amy Villarejo (Contributions by), Chuck Kleinhans (Contributions by), Diane Waldman (Contributions by), Timothy Shary (Contributions by), Debra White-Stanley (Contributions by), Caryl Flinn (Contributions by), José Capino (Contributions by)

    9780813543666

    Paperback / softback, published 1 October 2008

    304 pages, 33
    23.5 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.426 kg

    “There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”

    (American Quarterly)

    “There is nothing like this series. Screen Decades firmly situates American cinema in the realms of material culture, popular culture, cultural narrative, reception analysis, and industrial history.”

    (American Quarterly)

    With the U.S. economy booming under President Bill Clinton and the cold war finally over, many Americans experienced peace and prosperity in the nineties. Digital technologies gained popularity, with nearly one billion people online by the end of the decade. The film industry wondered what the effect on cinema would be.

    The essays in American Cinema of the 1990s examine the big-budget blockbusters and critically acclaimed independent films that defined the decade. The 1990s' most popular genre, action, channeled anxieties about global threats such as AIDS and foreign terrorist attacks into escapist entertainment movies. Horror films and thrillers were on the rise, but family-friendly pictures and feel-good romances netted big audiences too. Meanwhile, independent films captured hearts, engaged minds, and invaded Hollywood: by decade's end every studio boasted its own "art film" affiliate.

    Movies and the off-white gangster / Linda Mizejewski
    Movies and wayward images / Sharon Willis
    Movies and the politics of authorship / Amy Villarejo
    Movies and the new economics of blockbusters and indies / Chuck Kleinhans
    Movies and partisan politics / Diane Waldman
    Movies, teens, tots, and tech / Tim Shary
    Movies and homeland insecurity / Debra White-Stanley and Caryl Flinn
    Movies and the usable past / José B. Capino
    Movies, dying fathers, and a few survivors / Krin Gabbard
    Movies and millennial masculinity / Chris Holmlund
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