A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film´s influences -- westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus -- and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and of course bowling. The Year´s Work in Lebowski Studies contains neither arid analyses nor lectures for the late-night crowd, but new ways of thinking and writing about film culture.