A companion to American indie film / edited by Geoff King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

King, Geoff, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Independent filmmakers.

Independent films--Production and direction.

Independent films.

United States.

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

Independent films--Production and direction--United States.

Independent filmmakers--United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 530 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction: what indie isn't: mapping the indie field / Geoff King

Indie culture. Indie film as indie culture / Michael Z. Newman

The making of the indie scene: the cultural production of a field of cultural production / Sherry B. Ortner

Indie as organic: tracing discursive roots / Geoff King

Indie and other media. Quirky culture: tone, sensibility, and structure of feeling / James Macdowell

Independent intersections: indie music cultures and American indie cinema / Jamie Sexton

Post-cinema Soderbergh / Mark Gallagher

Criticism, marketing and positioning indie. Structuring indie and Beasts of the southern wild: the role of review journalism / Erin Pearson

Marketing American indie in the shadow of Hollywood / Finola Kerrigan

Movements/moments. Proto-indie: 1960s "half-way" cinema / Janet Staiger

From independence to indie: the independent feature project and the complex relationship between American independent cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s / Yannis Tzioumakis

Going mainstream: the indie film movement in 1999 / Thomas Schatz

Looking through a rearview mirror: mumblecore as past tense / J.J. Murphy

Indie as regional. The pull of place: regional indie film production / Mary P. Erickson

Rural crimewave: reconfiguring regional spaces through genre in US indie cinema / John Berra

Aesthetics and politics. Life during wartime: emotionalism, capitalist realism and middle class indie identity / Claire Perkins

Indie cinema and the neoliberal commodification of creative labour: rethinking the indie sensibility of Christopher Nolan / Claire Molloy

They believe every fuckin' word because you're super cool?: masculine cool '90s style in Reservoir dogs / Stella Bruzzi

The craft of independent filmmaking: editing in John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus seven and Baby it's you / Warren Buckland

Kickstarting indie. Crowdfunding, independence, authorship / Chuck Tryon

Go digital or go dark: crowdfunding, independent financing and art house exhibition on kickstarter / Sarah E.S. Sinwell

Indie acting and stardom. Casing indie acting / Chris Holmlund

Flexible stardom: contemporary American film and the independent mobility of star brands / Paul McDonald.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781118758328

1118758323

OCLC:

958141051

Publisher Number:

99976724938