Screening American Independent Film

by Justin Wyatt

Author	: Justin Wyatt
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 564
Release	: 2023-05-31
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1000872742

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This indispensable collection offers 51 chapters, each focused on a distinct American independent film. Screening American Independent Film presents these films chronologically, addressing works from across more than a century (1915−2020), emphasizing the breadth and long duration of American independent cinema. The collection includes canonical examples as well as films that push against and expand the definitions of "independence." The titles run from micro-budget films through marketing-friendly Indiewood projects, from auteur-driven films and festival darlings to B-movies, genre pics, and exploitation films. The chapters also introduce students to different approaches within film studies including historical and contextual framing, industrial and institutional analysis, politics and ideology, genre and authorship, representation, film analysis, exhibition and reception, and technology. Written by leading international scholars and emerging talents in film studies, this volume is the first of its kind. Paying particular attention to issues of diversity and inclusion for both the participating scholars and the content and themes within the selected films, Screening American Independent Film is an essential resource for anyone teaching or studying American cinema.

Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe

by Doris Baltruschat

Author	: Doris Baltruschat
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 328
Release	: 2015-01-01
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1442626836

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With chapters on under-explored cinemas as well as traditional centres, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time.

Celluloid Mavericks

by Greg Merritt

Author	: Greg Merritt
Publisher	: Da Capo Press
Total Pages	: 416
Release	: 1999-12-31
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 9781560252320

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Celluloid Mavericks: A History of American Independent Filmmaking documents this rich history, showing what it meant to be "independent" in the 1930s and what it means today. Author Greg Merritt distinguishes between indie and semi-indie productions, explores the genres represented under the independent umbrella, and addresses the question of what makes a movie independent -- its "spirit" or the budget backing the production. From one-reel flicks at the turn of the century to the blockbusters of the ‘90s, Celluloid Mavericks takes readers on a fascinating tour of the industry.

Contemporary American Independent Film

by Chris Holmlund

Author	: Chris Holmlund
Publisher	: Psychology Press
Total Pages	: 322
Release	: 2005
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 0415254868

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This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.

100 American Independent Films

by Jason Wood

Author	: Jason Wood
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 2019-07-25
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1838713921

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This revised and updated new edition provides a guide to 100 of the most interesting and influential American independent films, from Bonnie and Clyde to Junebug by way of Reservoir Dogs and The Blair With Project with an introduction to the genre and a rich selection of images from the films discussed, plus key credits.

American Independent Cinema

by Geoff King

Author	: Geoff King
Publisher	: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages	: 333
Release	: 2014-09-08
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 0857737333

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The independent sector has produced many of the most distinctive films to have appeared in the US in recent decades. From 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' in the 1980s to 'The Blair Witch Project' and New Queer Cinema in the 1990s and the ultra-low budget digital video features of the 2000s, indie films have thrived, creating a body of work that stands out from the dominant Hollywood mainstream. But what exactly is 'independent' cinema? This, the first book to examine the question in detail, argues that independence can be defined partly in industry terms but also according to formal and aesthetic strategies and by distinctive attitudes towards social and political issues, suggesting that independence is a dynamic rather than a fixed quality. Chapters focus on distribution and relationships with Hollywood studios; narrative ('Clerks' and 'Slacker' to 'Pulp Fiction', 'Magnolia' and 'Memento') and other formal dimensions (from 'Blair Witch's' 'authenticity' to expressive and stylized camerawork and editing in work from Harmony Korine to the Coen brothers); approaches to genre and alternative socio-political visions.

Indie TV

by James Lyons

Author	: James Lyons
Publisher	: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages	: 292
Release	: 2023-03-27
Genre	: Social Science
ISBN	: 1000814165

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This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways. The book covers the long history of continuities and connections between the two sectors, as seen in the activities of PBS, HBO or Sundance. It considers the movement of filmmakers between indie film and TV such as Steven Soderbergh, Rian Johnson, the Duplass brothers, Joe Swanberg, Lynn Shelton and Gregg Araki; details the confluence of aesthetic and thematic elements seen in shows such as Girls, Breaking Bad, Master of None, or Glow; points to a shared interest in regional sensibilities evident in shows like One Mississippi or Fargo; and makes the case for documentaries and web series as significant entities in this domain. Collectively, the book builds a compelling picture of indie TV as a significant feature of US screen entertainment in the 21st Century. This interdisciplinary landmark volume will be a go-to reference for students and scholars of Television Studies, Film Studies and Media Studies.

US Independent Film After 1989

by Claire Perkins

Author	: Claire Perkins
Publisher	: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages	: 240
Release	: 2015-02-27
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 0748692452

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"Looking beyond the directors and works that have branded indie discourse in the 1990s and 2000s, US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films attends to a group of 20 texts that have not been so fully subsumed by existing critical and promotional rhetoric. Through individual studies of films including All the Real Girls, The Exploding Girl, Laurel Canyon, Jesus' Son, Old Joy, Primer and You Can Count on Me, leading cinema scholars consider how notions of indie practice, poetics and politics can be opened up to account for a larger body of work than the dominant canon admits. With particular attention to female directors, this innovative and comprehensive book explores the central tenets of indie scholarship while simultaneously emphasising the classifying processes that can limit it."--Quatrième de couverture.

A Companion to American Indie Film

by Geoff King

Author	: Geoff King
Publisher	: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages	: 542
Release	: 2016-12-19
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 1118758323

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A Companion to American Indie Film features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States. Takes a comprehensive and fresh new look at the topic of American indie film Features newly commissioned essays from top film experts and emerging scholars that represent the state-of-the-art reference to the indie film field Topics covered include: indie film culture; key historical moments and movements in indie film history; relationships between indie film and other indie media; and issues including class, gender, regional identity and stardom in in the indie field Includes studies of many types of indie films and film genres, along with various filmmakers and performers that have come to define the field