Indie reframed : women's filmmaking and contemporary American independent cinema / edited by Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badley, Linda, editor.

Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth), editor.

Schreiber, Michele, editor.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Independent films--United States--History and criticism.

Independent films.

Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Women motion picture producers and directors.

Motion picture industry.

History.

United States.

Motion picture industry--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry--United States--History--21st century.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

With the consolidation of 'indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe 'maverick' white male auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson as the face of indie discourse. Defying the formulaic myths of the mainstream 'chick flick' and the ideological and experimental radicalism of feminist counter-cinema alike, women's indie filmmaking is neither ironic, popular nor political enough to be readily absorbed into pre-existing categories. 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. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the 'in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed.

Contents:

Part I Production and Distribution Contexts

1 Women Make Movies: Chicken & Egg Pictures, Gamechanger Films and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking / Sarah E. S. Sinwell Sinwell, Sarah E. S. 23

2 Killer Feminism / Patricia White White, Patricia 36

3 'A Woman with an Endgame': Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures and American Independent Film Production / James Lyons Lyons, James 54

4 Susan Seidelman's Contemporary Films: The Feminist Art of Self-reinvention in a Changing Technological Landscape / Christina Lane Lane, Christina 70

5 'I'm Absolutely the Right Person for this Job': Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television / Michele Schreiber Schreiber, Michele 87

Part II Genres and Modalities

6 Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths' The Off Horns and Eden / Geoff King King, Geoff 107

7 Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women's Indies / Linda Badley Badley, Linda 121

8 My Effortless Brilliance: Women's Mumblecore / Claire Perkins Perkins, Claire 138

9 Black Women, Romance and the Tndiewood Rom Corns of Sanaa Hamri / Shelley Cobb Cobb, Shelley 154

Part III Identities

10 From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home and Production Politics / Sarah Projansky Projansky, Sarah, Kent A. Ono Ono, Kent A. 171

11 Having its Cake and Eating it Too: Contemporary American 'Indie' Cinema and My Big Eat Greek Wedding Reframed / Yannis Tzioumakis Tzioumakis, Yannis, Lydia Papadimitriou Papadimitriou, Lydia 188

12 Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons / Cynthia Baron Baron, Cynthia 204

13 Sexual In-betweener/Industry Tn-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko / Maria San Filippo Filippo, Maria San 221

14 Miranda July and the New Twenty-first-century Indie / Kathleen A. McHugh McHugh, Kathleen A. 239

Part IV Collaborations

15 Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt / Chris Holmiund Holmiund, Chris 257

16 The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture / Corinn Columpar Columpar, Corinn 276

17 The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation and the Gender Politics of the Set / John Alberti Alberti, John 288

18 Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-articulations / Claudia Costa Pederson Pederson, Claudia Costa, Patricia R. Zimmermann Zimmermann, Patricia R. 304.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474403924

1474403921

9781474403948

1474403948

OCLC:

962321354