American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780415684293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 258 str.

Geoff King

Opis

Edited and written by leading authors in the field, this book offers an examination of American independent cinema through four sections that range in focus from broad definitions to close focus on particular manifestations of independence.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1 Introduction  Chapter 1 Independent of What? Sorting out differences from Hollywood, Janet Staiger  Chapter 2 ‘Independent’, ‘Indie’ and ‘Indiewood’: towards a periodisation of contemporary (post-1980) American independent cinema, Yannis Tzioumakis  Chapter 3 Thriving or in Permanent Crisis? Discourses on the state of indie cinema, Geoff King  Chapter 4 Quirky: buzzword or sensibility?, James MacDowell  Part 2 Introduction  Chapter 5 Movies for Hipsters, Michael Z. Newman  Chapter 6 Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and transhistorical taste cultures, Mark Gallagher  Chapter 7 Their Own Personal Velocity: women directors and contemporary independent cinema, Michele Schreiber  Chapter 8 Last Indie Standing: the special case of Lions Gate in the new millennium, Alisa Perren  Part 3 Introduction  Chapter 9 Conglomerate Hollywood and American Independent Film, Thomas Schatz  Chapter 10 Reputational capital, creative conflict and Hollywood independence: the case of Hal Ashby, Philip Drake  Chapter 11 The Limits of Autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood and independent filmmaking, 1950-53, Peter Krämer  Chapter 12 Independent nature: wildlife films between Hollywood and indiewood, Claire Molloy  Part 4 Introduction  Chapter 13 In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: Independent Christian Filmmaking, James Russell  Chapter 14 Welcome to the (neo) grindhouse! Sex, violence and the indie film, Sarah Wharton  Chapter 15 Faux Real? C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as the response to The Birth of a Nation, Novotny Lawrence  Chapter 16 Measuring Online Word-of-Mouth: The Initial Reception of Inland Empire (2006) on the Web, Warren Buckland

O autorze

Geoff King is Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University and author of five books focused on the independent sector, including American Independent Cinema (2005), Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema (2009) and Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Indie Film (2012).

Claire Molloy is Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at Edge Hill University. She is the author and editor of three books including Memento (2010), a volume in the 'American Indies' series, and has published widely on various film topics in edited collections and journals.

Yannis Tzioumakis is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of three books on independent filmmaking, including American Independent Cinema: An Introduction (2006) and Hollywood’s Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the American Film Market (2012). He also co-edits the series ‘American Indies,’ which has published five volumes since 2009.