Introduction: The Hyperreal Theme in 1990s American Cinema -- Back to the Future as Baudrillardian Parable -- The Alien films and Baudrillard's Phases of Simulation -- The Hyperrealization of Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Oliver Stone's Hyperreal Period -- Bill Clinton Goes to the Movies -- Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Baudrillard's Perfect Crime -- Recursive Self-Reflection in The Player -- Revisiting Baudrillard, The Matrix, and the "Real 1999" -- Reality / Television: The Truman Show -- Recombinant Reality in Jurassic Park -- Brad versus Tyler in Fight Club -- Shakespeare in the long 1990s -- Ambiguous Origins in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace -- Looking for the Real: Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, and Titanic -- That's Cryotainment! Postmortem Cinema in the Long 1990s.
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"Drawing on the critical theories of Jean Baudrillard, Cinema of Simulation performs close readings of key films to examine cinematic visions of mutational reality"-- Provided by publisher.
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