Contemporary American Independent Film From the Margins to the Mainstream 1st Edition by Chris Holmlund ISBN 0415254876 9780415254878

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ISBN 10: 0415254876 

ISBN 13: 9780415254878

Author: Chris Holmlund 

From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios, the contributors trace the changing ideas and definitions of independent cinema, and the diversity of independent film practices.

They consider the ways in which indie films are marketed and distributed, and how new technologies such as video, cable and the internet, offered new opportunities for filmmakers to produce and market independent films.

Turning to the work of key auteurs such as John Sayles and Haile Gerima, contributors ask whether independent filmmakers can also be stars, and consider how indie features like Boys Don’t Cry and Shopping for Fangs address issues of gender, sexuality and ethnicity normally avoided by Hollywood.

For all students of film studies and American studies, this cultural journey through independent film history will be an absolute must read.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Critical Formations

1. Introduction to ‘Critical Formations’
2. The Independent Feature Movement
3. Independence for Independents
4. Dimension Pictures: Portrait of a 1970s Independent
5. End of the Indies
6. Alternative Cinemas

Part 2: Cult Film/Cool Film
7. ‘Queen of the Indies’: Parker Posey’s Niche Stardom and the Taste Cultures of Independent Film
8. Dark, Disturbing, Intelligent, Provocative, and Quirky: Avant-garde Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s
9. Communitarianism, Film Entrepreneurism and the Crusade of Troma Entertainment

Part 3: Iconoclasts & Auteurs
10. John Sayles, Independent Filmmaker: Bet on Yourself
11. Haile Gerima: Sacred Shield of Culture
12. Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole, Pornography, Independent Cinema and the Avant-Garde

Part 4: Identity Hooks – Cultural Binds
13. Generation Q’s ABCs: Queer Kids and 1990s Independent Films
14. Just Another Girl Outside the Neo-Indie
15. Guests at The Wedding Banquet: The Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora and the Rise of the American Independents

Part 5: Shifting Markets, Changing Media
16. Revisiting 1970s Independent Distribution and Marketing Strategies
17. Digital Deployment(s)
18. The IFC and Sundance: Channeling Independence

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