Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity

ISBN-13: 9780367677299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 416 str.

Lyons, James

Opis

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.

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Part 1: Indie Film and Television: Historical Relationships  1. Indie (Film on) TV: A Tale of two very Close Friends  2. Same Word, Different Medium: The Evolution of Indie TV since the 2000s’  Part 2: Indie Film and Television: Industrial Continuities  3. (Re-)Branding Sundance: Entering the Indie TV Market  4. Packaging the 'Purest' form of Indie TV: Michael Sugar, Talent Management and Indie-Auteur Clients’  5. ‘The Things That Keep Us Up at Night’: Blumhouse Television and Indie Horror’s Small Screen Dispersal  Part 3: Filmmakers Migration from Indie Film to TV (and back)  6. From Brick to Breaking Bad: ‘Quality’ Television Style, Authorship and ‘Cinematic’ Status  7. Mumblecore’s Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking’s Migration to Television  8. Apocalyptic Visions and Commercial Constraints: Gregg Araki’s Negotiation of Emerging Modes of Indie TV Auteurship  Part 4: Indie TV: Aesthetic and Institutional Trajectories  9. Prestige TV, Comedy, and the Indie Aesthetic  10. Netflix, Race and Cinephilia: Master of None and Indie TV  11. 'It may Be Where the Future of Independent Production Is Happening': Netflix and Indie Aesthetics in GLOW  12. Affect, Tabloid Reality TV and Indie Cinema  Part 5: Indie TV and Regional Sensibilities  13. Fargo (2014-2020): Indie Cinema, Midwest Mobsters, and Indie TV  14. Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in One Mississippi  Part 6: Indie TV and Alternative Practices  15. Indie TV in the Streaming Era  16. Web Series as Indie TV: Intersectional Identities and Intersecting Media  17. ‘A Decade of Distinction’: A&E IndieFilms and the Channelling of Documentary