Spike, Mike, slackers & dykes : a guided tour across a decade of American independent cinema / John Pierson ; with the conversational collaboration of Kevin Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierson, John, author.

Contributor:

Smith, Kevin, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Independent filmmakers--United States--Biography.

Independent filmmakers.

Low budget films.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Spike, Mike, slackers and dykes

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Stranger Than Fiction""; ""Dialogue / Leaders""; ""A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History""; ""Dialogue / Starting Point""; ""Stranger Than Paradise and the First Golden Age""; ""Dialogue / Paradise""; ""Parting Glances & The New Queer Cinema""; ""She's Gotta Have It""; ""Tube Socks and Tube Steaks""; ""Black and White""; ""Birth of a Salesman""; ""Dialogue / Be Like Spike""; ""Working Girls and Women""; ""Inspector Errol Morris Walks The Thin Blue Line""; ""D.O.A""; ""The Dance Part 1""

""Deceased""""Quantity Not Quality""; ""Dialogue / Batman and Sex""; ""1989: The Year It All Changed""; ""Dialogue / Sex and Roger""; ""Roger and Michael and Me""; ""The Cinderella Syndrome""; ""How to Make a Studio Deal""; ""The Morning After""; ""Dialogue / Role Models""; ""Slacking Off""; ""Dialogue / Straight Outta Business""; ""The Next Soderbergh""; ""Sundance 1990""; ""Sundance 1991""; ""Sundance 1992""; ""Dialogue / Dogs""; ""Sons of Mean Streets""; ""Dialogue / 26,685""; ""How Low Can a Budget Go?""; ""Dialogue / Shannen""

""Amongst Jerks: Rob Weiss and the Dark Side of Overnight Success""""Toll Money""; ""Hitchcock: Who Needs Him?""; ""Murder Ink""; ""The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994""; ""In Hock and Staying There""; ""Go Fiscal: Anatomy of a Back End""; ""A Doc In The House""; ""Dialogue / The Clerky Boys""; ""Epilogue: It's A Wonderful Life, July 4, 1995""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Appendix I""; ""Appendix II""; ""Appendix III""; ""Index""

Notes:

Includes filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 7, 2014).

ISBN:

0-292-76100-7

OCLC:

882105009