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CONTENTS

Introduction: Stranger Than Fiction 1

Dialogue / Leaders
A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History
Dialogue / Starting Point
Stranger Than Paradise and the First Golden Age
Dialogue / Paradise
Parting Glances & 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

Black and White

Birth of a Salesman
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 Long Can a Budget Go?
Dialogue / Shannen
Amongst 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
Appendix I American "Independent" Theatrical Releases
Appendix II Indies in Release in New York City
Appendix III
Index