Dogville vs Hollywood / by Jake Horsley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horsley, Jake, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--United States--History.

Motion pictures.

Independent filmmakers.

United States.

History.

Independent filmmakers--United States.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

379 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Marion Boyars, 2005.

Summary:

Interpreting Lars von Trier's Dogville as a comment on the Hollywood film industry and the moviegoing process, Jake Horsley examines the age-old conflict between 'artistic' and 'commercial' filmmaking. He proposes that the term 'independent', when applied to filmmaking, refers to sensibility and vision rather than backing or funds. Moving beyond the simple question: 'Can an "independent" film achieve commercial success in Hollywood and still be called independent?', Horsley also raises the disturbing possibility that the very creativity of maverick filmmakers is dependent on the 'evils' of the studio-system.

Including detailed analysis of work from early independent visionaries such as Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski, through 80s indie cinema and 90s slacker films to present day pioneers such as Keith Gordon, Charlie Kaufman and Richard Linklater.

Contents:

Introduction: Dogville, Hollywood and the Rule of the Mediocracy 9

I) Hollywood Genesis: A Brief History of the Movies 26

Griffith and Melies

Sound, Color, World War II and Film Noir

Orson Welles and Citizen Kane

John Huston

Stanley Kubrick

II) The Two Faces of Hollywood: The First Independent Wave, 1960-68 57

Hitchcock's Psycho

John Cassavetes

Roger Corman

Francis Ford Coppola

Roman Polanski

Robert Evans

Martin Scorsese

Night of the Living Dead

III) Hollywood At War: Avant-Garde Vs. Old Guard, Early 70s 92

Easy Rider, Jack Nicholson, BBS and The Last Picture Show

M*A*S*H and The Godfather

Sam Peckinpah's Studio Wars

Hollywood's Mutilated Movies

Brian De Palma

The Directors Company (Bogdanovich, Friedkin, Coppola)

Steven Spielberg

IV) Hollywood Prodigals: Four Auteurs and an Apocalypse 130

Woody Allen

John Waters

David Lynch

John Sayles

Scorsese, Cimino and Heaven's Gate

Coppola's Trip to the Abyss

V) The Dark, Satanic Mill: Independent Cinema in the 80s 166

Gilliam's Travels

Jonathan Demme

Repo Man and the Coen Brothers

Jim Jarmusch

Spike Lee

A (Very) Brief History of Indie Cinema

Pauline Kael's Cri du Coeur

Sundance and the Question of Independence

Soderbergh's sex, lies and videotape

VI) Bitch Goddess and Muse: Trash, Art and the Hollywood Trap 214

Richard Linklater

Quentin Tarantino and Miramax

Robert Rodriguez

Revisiting Lynch, Scorsese and De Palma

Evans' and Coppola's Cotton Club

VII) God and Cosmetics: Hollywood 'Morality' and the Vow of Chastity 256

Dogme 95

Clint Eastwood

Kevin Smith

Charlie Kaufman

Gus Van Sant's Elephant, the Two Steves - Soderbergh and Spielberg

Shakespeare Never Did This

VIII) Hollywood Be Thy Name: The Story So Far and One Possible Ending 289

Back in Dogville

George Lucas

Keith Gordon

Matthew Ryan Hoge's United States of Leland

Remake-'itis' and Sequel-mania

The Curse of the 'Package Movie'

The Hollywood Draft

Chris Nolan and Batman Begins

Sam Raimi and Michael Mann

Fight Club and Three Kings

The End of Hollywood

Phone Booth and Joel Schumacher

The Matrix Sequels

'What We Have Here Is A Failure To Communicate'

Appendix The New Avant-Garde: Honoree Mention For Films and Filmmakers That Didn't Make it Into the Book 342

Hal Hartley

Richard Linklater, Todd Haynes, Todd Solondz, Sean Penn, Atom Egoyan, Neil LaBute, Paul Thomas Anderson, Alexander Payne, Sofia Coppola.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0714531170

0714531030

OCLC:

61757252

Publisher Number:

9780714531175

9780714531038