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Speeding to the millennium

by Joseph P. Natoli

Motion picturesPolitical aspectsPolitical aspects of Motion picturesSocial aspectsSocial aspects of Motion picturesMedia StudiesSOCIAL SCIENCECulture in motion pictures

Natoli offers observations from a postmodern point of view of American culture "speeding" toward the millennium in the years 1993-1995, a time sandwiched between mounting anxieties at the beginning of the nineties and the desperate final journey of the Heaven's Gate cult in the latter half of the decade. Speeding to the Millennium reviews the headlines and seeks the Big Screen to give some framing to the disturbingly contingent, to the seemingly senseless.

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