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"As a new generation of 'The Big Lebowski' fans emerges, Dude Studies may linger for a while.
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When putting the book together, Mr. Comentale said, he and his co-editor 'immediately cut out all the papers celebrating the Dude as a hippie hero in a postmodern landscape.' That's a sober choice.
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Umberto Eco: 'What are the requirements for transforming a book or movie into a cult object? The work must be loved, obviously, but this is not enough. It must provide a completely furnished world so that its fans can quote characters and episodes as if they were aspects of the fan's private sectarian world, a world about which one can make up quizzes and play trivia games so that the adepts of the sect recognize through each other a shared expertise.'"
Originally from NYT > Most E-Mailed by reBlogged to on Dec 29, 2009, 5:27PM