{"product_id":"the-years-work-in-lebowski-studies-paperback-softback-9780253221360","title":"The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253221360","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Year's Work in Lebowski Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEdward P. Dallis-Comentale (Edited by), Aaron Jaffe (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253221360\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e512 pages, 44 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e17.8 x 15.6 x 3 cm, 0.567 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than a few of this book's essay titles will make you groan and laugh out loud at the same time. . . . But just as often, the writing here is a bit like the film: amiable, laid-back and possessed of a wobbly Zen-acuity.December 30, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e (New York Times) \u003cp\u003eIf you're a 'Big Lebowski' collector . . . you may want to acquire this . . . illuminating book.December 31, 2009\u003c\/p\u003e (Washington Post) \u003cp\u003eAny self-respecting fan will want a copy for the living-room table.December 2009\u003c\/p\u003e (Indianapolis Monthly) \u003cp\u003eFantastic . . . not just a book to be passed around among film studies majors. It manages to be deeply smart and serious about its ideas without become stuffy and impenetrable. It's also not one of those hokey knock-off, cash-in books that you see trying to jump on the coattails. If you're holiday shopping, this should definitely make the cut.11\/11\/2009\u003c\/p\u003e (http:\/\/condalmo.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/11\/dude-i-know\/) \u003cp\u003eDudely interesting. . . . Comentale and Jaffe have mixed up a provocative, truly strange cocktail of cultural studies and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e - Simon Critchley \u003cp\u003eThis book is the Dude's joint. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies proves that academics can be very funny and even sometimes smart.\u003c\/p\u003e - Percival Everett \u003cp\u003eThe essays are complex, evocative, approachable, and attentive to the film's ironies and nuances. There is something here for the slacker as well as the scholar, for all Lebowskis, big and small, for film specialists, 90s fanatics, scholars of American studies, and the ever-growing assemblage of Lebowski cultists worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e - Patrick O'Donnell (Michigan State University) \u003cp\u003eWhat could be more ridiculous than the application of Marxist, feminist, and other Very Serious theories to the orgy of goofiness that constitutes the Coen brothers' film? But the thing is, after reading the book's 21 essays, you can't help yourself. You find yourself thinking, Dude, it really is all in there: the updated Western, the Arthurian romance (think pee-stained rug as Holy Grail), the homage to Raymond Chandler, the critique of petro-capitalism, the riff on Rip Van Winkle (bowling, duh!).March\/April 2010\u003c\/p\u003e (Indiana Alumni Magazine) \u003cp\u003eThe Year's Work in Lebowski Studies is like a roller coaster ride. And, like the amusement park for children, there are no disappointments. Each one of the essays in the collection is original, unexpected in content and elegant in writing, skilled in the difficult art of intertextual references, intriguing conclusions and always theoretically founded....the authors of this enthusiastic, passionate and rigorous book question Lebowski with the same care with which we read the works of the most representative of contemporary intellectualsJanuary 6, 2010\u003c\/p\u003e - Sara Antonelli (L'Unità [translation])\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies contains neither arid analyses nor lectures for the late-night crowd, but new ways of thinking and writing about film culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \/ Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe\u003cbr\u003ePart 1. Ins (Intrinsic Models and Influences)\u003cbr\u003e1. The Really Big Sleep: Jeffrey Lebowski as the Second Coming of Rip Van Winkle \/ Fred Ashe\u003cbr\u003e2. A Once and Future Dude: The Big Lebowski as Medieval Grail-Quest \/ Andrew Rabin\u003cbr\u003e3. Dudespeak: Or, How to Bowl like a Pornstar \/ Justus Nieland\u003cbr\u003e4. Metonymic Hats and Metaphoric Tumbleweeds: Noir Literary Aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The Big Lebowski \/ Christopher Raczkowski \u003cbr\u003e5. The Dude and the New Left \/ Stacy Thompson\u003cbr\u003e6. The Big Lebowski and Paul de Man: Historicizing Irony and Ironizing Historicism \/ Joshua Kates\u003cbr\u003e7. Lebowski and the Ends of Postmodern American Comedy \/ Matthew Biberman\u003cbr\u003e8. Found Document: The Stranger's Commentary and a Note on His Method \/ Thomas B. Byers\u003cbr\u003e9. No Literal Connection: Mass Commodification, U.S. Militarism, and the Oil Industry in The Big Lebowski \/ David Martin-Jones\u003cbr\u003e10. \"I'll Keep Rolling Along\": Some Notes on Singing Cowboys and Bowling Alleys in The Big Lebowski \/ Edward P. Comentale \u003cbr\u003ePart 2. Outs (Eccentric Activities and Behaviors)\u003cbr\u003e11. What Condition the Postmodern Condition Is In: Collecting Culture in The Big Lebowski \/ Allan Smithee\u003cbr\u003e12. Holding Out Hope for the Creedence: Music and the Search for the Real Thing in The Big Lebowski \/ Diane Pecknold \u003cbr\u003e13. \"Fuck It, Let's Go Bowling\": The Cultural Connotations of Bowling in The Big Lebowski \/ Bradley D. Clissold\u003cbr\u003e14. LebowskIcons: The Rug, The Irong Lung, The Tiki Bar, and Busby Berkeley \/ Dennis Hall and Susan Grove Hall \u003cbr\u003e15. On the White Russian \/ Craig N. Owens\u003cbr\u003e16. Professor Dude: An Inquiry into the Appeal of His Dudeness for Contemporary College Students \/ Richard Gaughran\u003cbr\u003e17. Abiding (as) Animal: Marmot, Pomeranian, Whale, Dude \/ David Pagano\u003cbr\u003e18. Logjammin' and Gutterballs: Masculinities in The Big Lebowski \/ Dennis Allen \u003cbr\u003e19. Size Matters \/ Judith Roof\u003cbr\u003e20. Brunswick = Fluxus \/ Aaron Jaffe \u003cbr\u003e21. Enduring and Abiding \/ Jonathan Elmer \u003cbr\u003eEndnote: The Goofy and the Profound: A Non-Academic's Perspective on the Lebowski Achievement \/ William Preston Robertson\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520535327000,"sku":"9780253221360","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-years-work-in-lebowski-studies-paperback-softback-9780253221360","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}