Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Index.