American Independent Cinema indie indiewood and beyond 1st Edition by Geoff King, Claire Molloy, Yannis Tzioumakis ISBN 0415684285 9780415684286

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ISBN 10: 0415684285

ISBN 13: 9780415684286 

Author: Geoff King, Claire Molloy, Yannis Tzioumakis 

The American independent sector has attracted much attention in recent years, an upsurge of academic work on the subject being accompanied by wider public debate. But many questions remain about how exactly independence should be defined and how its relationship might be understood with other parts of the cinematic landscape, most notably the Hollywood studios. Edited and written by leading authors in the field, American Independent Cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond offers an examination of the field through four sections that range in focus from broad definitions to close focus on particular manifestations of independence. A wide variety of examples are included but within a framework that offers insights into how these are related to one another.

More specifically this collection offers:

• an account of recent developments as well as reviewing, reassessing and revising a number of central positions, approaches and arguments relating to various parts of the independent and/or indie sector.
• Individual case studies that range from the distinctive qualities of the work of established ‘quality’ filmmakers such as Wes Anderson, Steven Soderbergh and Rebecca Miller to studies of horror genre production at the more ‘disreputable’ end of the independent spectrum.
• Examples of the limits of independence available in some cases within Hollywood, including studies of the work of Stanley Kubrick and Hal Ashby.
• Case studies of under-researched areas in the margins of American independent cinema, including the Disney nature films and Christian evangelical filmmaking.
• A number of wider overview chapters that examine contemporary American independent cinema from a number of perspectives.

Together, the chapters in the collection offer a unique contribution to the study of independent film in the United States.

Table of contents:

Part 1
Chapter 1: Independent of What? Sorting out differences from Hollywood
Chapter 2: ‘Independent’, ‘Indie’ and ‘Indiewood’: towards a periodisation of contemporary (post-1980) American independent cinema
Chapter 3: Thriving or in Permanent Crisis? Discourses on the state of indie cinema
Chapter 4: Quirky: buzzword or sensibility?

Part 2
Chapter 5: Movies for Hipsters
Chapter 6: Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and transhistorical taste cultures
Chapter 7: Their Own Personal Velocity: women directors and contemporary independent cinema
Chapter 8: Last Indie Standing: the special case of Lions Gate in the new millennium

Part 3
Chapter 9: Conglomerate Hollywood and American Independent Film
Chapter 10: Reputational capital, creative conflict and Hollywood independence: the case of Hal Ashby
Chapter 11: The Limits of Autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood and independent filmmaking, 1950-53
Chapter 12: Independent nature: wildlife films between Hollywood and indiewood

Part 4
Chapter 13: In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: Independent Christian Filmmaking
Chapter 14: Welcome to the (neo) grindhouse! Sex, violence and the indie film
Chapter 15: Faux Real? C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as the response to The Birth of a Nation
Chapter 16: Measuring Online Word-of-Mouth: The Initial Reception of Inland Empire (2006) on the Web

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