Table of Contents
Introduction: Stranger Than Fiction
Dialogue / Leaders
A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History
Dialogue / Starting Point
Stranger Than Paradise and the First Golden Age
Dialogue / Paradise
Parting Gances & The New Queer Cinema
She's Gotta Have It
Tube Socks and Tube Steaks
Black and White
Birth of a Salesman
Dialogue / Be Like Spike
Working Girls and Women
Inspector Errol Morris Walks The Thin Blue Line
D.O.A.
The Dance Part 1
Deceased
Quantity not Quality
Dialogue / Batman and Sex
1989: The Year It All Changed
Dialogue / sex and Roger
Roger and Michael and Me
The Cinderella Syndrome
How to Make a Studio Deal
The Morning After
Dialogue / Role Models
Slacking Off
Dialogue / Straight Outta Business
The Next Soderbergh
Sundance 1990
Sundance 1991
Sundance 1992
Dialogue / Dogs
Sons of Mean Streets
Dialogue / $26,685
How Low Can a Budget Go?
Dialogue / Shannen
Amonst Jerks: Rob Weiss and the Dark Side of Overnight Success
Toll Money
Hitchcock: Who Needs Him?
Murder Ink
The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994
In Hock and Staying There
Go Fiscal: Anatomy of a Back End
A Doc In The House
Dialogue / The Clerky Boys
Epilogue: It's A Wonderful Life, July 4, 1995
Coda: Labor Day, 1996
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Index