Randy Laist is Associate Professor of English at Goodwin College, USA. He is the author of Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels (2009) and the editor of Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies (2013) and Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (2011).

Grounded in textual analysis, the book serves as an important guide to the philosophical reading of film ... [It] makes a very important contribution to the larger academic discourse on 1990s science fiction.

• Introduction: The Hyperreal Theme in 1990s American Cinema Chapter 1. Back to the Future as Baudrillardian ParableChapter 2. The Alien films and Baudrillard’s Phases of SimulationChapter 3. The Hyperrealization of Arnold SchwarzeneggerChapter 4. Oliver Stone’s Hyperreal PeriodChapter 5. Bill Clinton Goes to the MoviesChapter 6. Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Baudrillard’s Perfect CrimeChapter 7. Recursive Self-Reflection in The PlayerChapter 8. Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix by Way of the “Real 1999”Chapter 9. Reality / Television: The Truman ShowChapter 10. Recombinant Reality in Jurassic ParkChapter 11. The Brad / Tyler Paradox in Fight ClubChapter 12. Shakespeare in the 1990sChapter 13. Ambiguous Origins in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom MenaceChapter 14. Looking for the Real: Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and TitanicChapter 15. That’s Cryotainment! Postmortem Cinema in the Long 1990sBibliographyIndex

Randy Laist is Associate Professor of English at Goodwin College, USA. He is the author of Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo’s Novels (2009) and the editor of Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies (2013) and Looking for Lost: Critical Essays on the Enigmatic Series (2011).

Grounded in textual analysis, the book serves as an important guide to the philosophical reading of film ... [It] makes a very important contribution to the larger academic discourse on 1990s science fiction.

• Introduction: The Hyperreal Theme in 1990s American Cinema Chapter 1. Back to the Future as Baudrillardian ParableChapter 2. The Alien films and Baudrillard’s Phases of SimulationChapter 3. The Hyperrealization of Arnold SchwarzeneggerChapter 4. Oliver Stone’s Hyperreal PeriodChapter 5. Bill Clinton Goes to the MoviesChapter 6. Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and Baudrillard’s Perfect CrimeChapter 7. Recursive Self-Reflection in The PlayerChapter 8. Revisiting Baudrillard and The Matrix by Way of the “Real 1999”Chapter 9. Reality / Television: The Truman ShowChapter 10. Recombinant Reality in Jurassic ParkChapter 11. The Brad / Tyler Paradox in Fight ClubChapter 12. Shakespeare in the 1990sChapter 13. Ambiguous Origins in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom MenaceChapter 14. Looking for the Real: Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and TitanicChapter 15. That’s Cryotainment! Postmortem Cinema in the Long 1990sBibliographyIndex