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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

King, Geoff, 1960- editor.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Independent films.

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

Independent filmmakers--United States.

Independent filmmakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

A Companion to American Indie Film features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States. * Takes a comprehensive and fresh new look at the topic of American indie film * Features newly commissioned essays from top film experts and emerging scholars that represent the state-of-the-art reference to the indie film field * Topics covered include: indie film culture; key historical moments and movements in indie film history; relationships between indie film and other indie media; and issues including class, gender, regional identity and stardom in in the indie field * Includes studies of many types of indie films and film genres, along with various filmmakers and performers that have come to define the field

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction What Indie Isn't… Mapping the Indie Field

Part One Indie Culture

Chapter 1 Indie Film as Indie Culture

Autonomy and Authenticity

Slanted and Enchanted and Indie Game

Conclusion

References

Chapter 2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production

Fields, Scenes, and Movements

The Work of Culture in Fields/Scenes/Movements

The Cultural Production of the Field of Cultural Production

The Artist, the Community, and the Movement

Notes

Chapter 3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots

Roots

Substance

Handling

Effects

Discursive Roots and Rhetorical Oppositions

Part Two Indie and Other Media

Chapter 4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling

Quirky and Indie

Quirky, Tone, and Structure of Feeling

The Quirky Sensibility and "Innocence"

Quirky Culture: Music, Comedy, and Radio

Chapter 5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema

Punk and the Beginnings of a New Independent Cinema

The Historical Emergence of Indie

The Growth of Indie

Into the New Millennium

Chapter 6 Post-Cinema Soderbergh

To Recap: Post-Cinema Soderbergh

The Twittering Soderbergh

Unglued? Glue and Short Fiction Online and Offline

The Soderbergh Web

Soderbergh TV, Round 2

Social Media and the Less-Small Screen

Part Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie

Chapter 7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism

Evaluating Authenticity and Originality

Shaping a Preferred Indie Aesthetic

The Stakes for Writers.

The Politics of Awarding Distinction

Conclusion: A Permanent Conflict

Note

Chapter 8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood

Introduction

Understanding the Indie in Independent

Film Selection

Ain't Them Bodies Saints (2013)

Blue Jasmine (2013)

Frances Ha (2013)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Marketing Indie

Part Four Movements/Moments

Chapter 9 Proto-Indie 1960s "Half-Way" Cinema

The Second and Third Waves of Indie Cinema

The Historical Establishment of the First Wave of Indie Cinema

Conventions and Viewing of First-Wave Indie Cinema

Selected Filmography of First-Wave Indie Cinema

Chapter 10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s

Introduction. Contemporary American Independent Cinema and Institutional Infrastructure

The Beginnings of the IFP: Marshaling Resources

Layers of Independence: Navigating between Art and Commerce

Taking American Independent Cinema to the Next "Level"

Conclusion - IFP: An (Ultra-) Successful Failure?

Chapter 11 Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Sixth Sense and Fight Club

American Beauty

The Blair Witch Project

Aftermath: The Rise of Indiewood

Chapter 12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense

Four Eyed Monsters

The Actor-Based Films of Andrew Bujalski

Word and Image: Aaron Katz's Quiet City

Improvisation, Cassavetes, and Norman Mailer

Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg

Writing with Somebody's Brain: Ronald Bronstein's Frownland

Anecdotal Narrative: The Films of Frank V. Ross

The Ascendance of Mumblecore.

The Decline and Death of Mumblecore

Part Five Indie as Regional

Chapter 13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production

"Regional" Filmmaking: Historical Place in the Literature

What is Regional Filmmaking?

Increased Visibility of Regional Filmmaking

Rise of Regional: Tax Incentives

Rise of Regional: Locating Personal and Professional Networks

Rise of Regional: Thematic/Aesthetic Concerns

Chapter 14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema

Defining the Rural Crime Film

Frozen River

Winter's Bone

A Single Shot

Casting the Rural Crime Film

Marketing and Distributing the Rural Crime Film

Part Six Aesthetics and Politics

Chapter 15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle-Class Indie Identity

Class and Indie Cinema

Indie Emotionalism

Spectacular Dysfunction: Young Adult

Fearful Energy: Touchy Feely

Conclusion: Indie Class Consciousness

Chapter 16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan

Neoliberalism and Independent Cinema

Indie Filmmakers and the Studio Sector

Christopher Nolan

Chapter 17 "They Believe Every Fuckin' Word Because You're Super Cool": Masculine Cool '90s Style in Reservoir Dogs

"Stealing" and Those Suits

"Men's Cinema"

Reservoir Dogs' Two Beginnings

The Severed Ear

Mr Orange and the Performance(s) of Masculinity

The End

Chapter 18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It's You

Knowing That and Knowing How

Evaluating John Sayles' Editing.

Conclusion: Jack Ryan's Epithets

Part Seven Kickstarting Indie

Chapter 19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship

Money

Authorship

Moral Economy

Chapter 20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter

Independent Cinema and Arthouse Exhibition

Transitioning to Digital Projection

Crowdfunding and Kickstarter

The Arthouse Experience: Building Community on Kickstarter

Kickstarter: Dilemmas and Possibilities

Part Eight Indie Acting and Stardom

Chapter 21 Casing Indie Acting

"Quality" Acting

John Cusack's Lovers and Losers

Giancarlo Esposito's Riffs on Race

Michelle Williams' Working-Class Women

Lupe Ontiveros's Servants, Solidarity, and Sabotage

Tapping Talent

Chapter 22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands

Star Brands

Stars, Independence, Flexibility

Sindiependence and the Hyphenates

Philip Seymour Hoffman - Flexible Star

Flexible Stardom and the Space of Independence

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-118-75808-0

1-119-13254-1

1-118-75835-8

OCLC:

961185860