Thanks to its massive underground following, The Big Lebowski is considered to be the Internet ages first cult movie. 21 fans and scholars of the movie come together in this book to address the main influences of the movie; noir, westerns, the 60’s grail legends and Fluxus, as well as its historical connections to boomers, the first Iraq war, surrealism, slackerdom, college culture and of course bowling. In The Year’s Work in Lebowski Studies, you will find neither lectures nor arid analyses just a new way of both thinking and writing about movie culture.
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