The year's work in Lebowski studies
By: edited by Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe.
Contributors: Comentale, Edward P.; Jaffe, Aaron.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353801; 9780253221360
Subjects: Big Lebowski (Motion picture)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Edward P. Comentale and Aaron Jaffe; title: Ins (Intrinsic Models and Influences). The really big sleep : Jeffrey Lebowski as the second coming of Rip Van Winkle / Fred Ashe; title: A once and future dude : The big Lebowski as medieval grail-quest / Andrew Rabin; title: Dudespeak : or, how to bowl like a pornstar / Justus Nieland; title: Metonymic hats and metaphoric tumbleweeds : noir literary aesthetics in Miller's Crossing and The big Lebowski / Christopher Raczkowski; title: The dude and the new left / Stacy Thompson; title: The big Lebowski and Paul de Man: historicizing irony and ironizing historicism / Joshua Kates; title: Lebowski and the ends of postmodern American comedy / Matthew Biberman; title: Found document : the stranger's commentary and a note on his method / Thomas B. Byers; title: No literal connection : mass commodification, U.S. militarism, and the oil industry in The big Lebowski / David Martin-Jones; title: "I'll keep rolling along" : some notes on singing cowboys and bowling alleys in The big lebowski / Edward P. Comentale; title: Outs (eccentric activities and behaviors). What condition the postmodern condition is in : collecting culture in The big Lebowski / Allan Smithee; title: Holding out hope for the creedence : music and the search for the real thing in The big Lebowski / Diane Pecknold; title: "Fuck it, let's go bowling" : the cultural connotations of bowling in The big Lebowski / Bradley D. Clissold; title: LebowskIcons : the rug, the iron lung, the tiki bar, and Busby Berkeley/ Dennis Hall and Susan Grove Hall; title: On the White Russian / Craig N. Owens; title: Professor Dude : an inquiry into the appeal of his dudeness for contemporary college students / Richard Gaughran; title: Abiding (as) animal : marmot, Pomeranian, whale, dude / David Pagano; title: Logjammin' and gutterballs : masculinities in The big Lebowski / Dennis Allen; title: Size matters / Judith Roof; title: Brunswick = Fluxus / Aaron Jaffe; title: Enduring and abiding / Jonathan Elmer; title: Endnote  : the goofy and the profound : a non-academic's perspective on the Lebowski achievement / William Preston Robertson.