Foreword by Kevin Smith Out of the Jungle Introduction to the Original Edition: 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 Gances & 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 Amonst 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 The Last Word Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Index