Indie Reframed: Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474403924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 320 str.

Linda Badley; Claire Perkins; Michele Schreiber

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This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the 'difference' of female indie filmmaking.

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Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction, Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber; Part 1: Production and Distribution Contexts; 1: Women Make Movies: Gamechanger Films, Chicken and Egg Pictures and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking, Sarah Sinwell; 2: Killer Feminism, Patricia White; 3: ‘A Woman with an Endgame’: Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures, and American Independent Film Production, James Lyons; 4: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It: Pioneering Practices in the Frontier of Micro-budget Filmmaking, Christina Lane; 5: ‘I’m Absolutely the Right Person for this Job’: Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television, Michele Schreiber; Part II: Genres and Modalities; 1: Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths’ The Off Hours and Eden, Geoff King; 2: Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women’s Indies, Linda Badley; 3: My Effortless Brilliance: Women’s Mumblecore, Claire Perkins; 4: Black Women, Romance, and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Saana Hamri, Shelley Cobb; Part III: Identities; 1: From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home, and Production Politics, Sarah Projansky and Kent Ono; 2: Having Its Cake and Eating It Too: Contemporary American ‘Indie’ cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed, Yannis Tzioumakis and Lydia Papadimitriou; 3: Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons, Cynthia Baron; 4: Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko, Maria San Filippo; 5: Miranda July and the New 21st Century Indie, Kathleen McHugh; Part IV: Collaborations; 1: Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Nicole Holofcener and Catherine Keener, Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, Chris Holmlund; 2: The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture, Corinn Columpar; 3: The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation, and the Gender Politics of the Set, John Alberti; 4: Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-Articulations, Claudia Costa Pederson and Patricia R. Zimmermann