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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Badley, Linda, Author.

Contributor:

Badley, Linda, editor.

Schreiber, Michele, editor.

Perkins, Claire (Claire Elizabeth), editor.

Series:

Traditions in American cinema.

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--United States--History--20th century.

Motion picture industry.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2016.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS

INTRODUCTION Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber

PART I. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION CONTEXTS

1. WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES, GAMECHANGER FILMS AND THE FUTURE OF FEMALE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING

2. KILLER FEMINISM

3. ‘A WOMAN WITH AN ENDGAME’: MEGAN ELLISON, ANNAPURNA PICTURES AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCTION

4. SUSAN SEIDELMAN’S CONTEMPORARY FILMS: THE FEMINIST ART OF SELF-REINVENTION IN A CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE

5. ‘I’M ABSOLUTELY THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THIS JOB’: ALLISON ANDERS AND MARY HARRON ON LIFETIME TELEVISION

PART II GENRES AND MODALITIES

6. GENDER, GENRE AND MORE GENERAL INDIE DIMENSIONS IN MEGAN GRIFFITHS’ THE OFF HOURS AND EDEN

7. DOWN TO THE BONE: NEO-NEOREALISM AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S INDIES

8. MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE: WOMEN’S MUMBLECORE

9. BLACK WOMEN, ROMANCE AND THE INDIEWOOD ROM COMS OF SANAA HAMRI

PART III IDENTITIES

10. FROM DOCUMENTARY TO FICTIONAL REALISM: MIRA NAIR’S DOCUMENTARY ROOTS, FICTIONAL HOME AND PRODUCTION POLITICS

11. HAVING ITS CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ‘INDIE’ CINEMA AND MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING REFRAMED

12. NOT JUST INDIE: A LOOK AT FILMS BY DEE REES, AVA DUVERNAY AND KASI LEMMONS

13. SEXUAL IN-BETWEENER/INDUSTRY IN-BETWEENER: THE CAREER AND FILMS OF LISA CHOLODENKO

14. MIRANDA JULY AND THE NEW TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY INDIE

PART IV COLLABORATIONS

15. MUTUAL MUSES IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM: CATHERINE KEENER AND NICOLE HOLOFCENER, MICHELLE WILLIAMS AND KELLY REICHARDT

16. THE FEMINIST POLITICS OF COLLABORATION IN LENA DUNHAM’S TINY FURNITURE

17. THE DIRECTOR AS FACILITATOR: COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND THE GENDER POLITICS OF THE SET

18. BEYOND THE SCREEN: ON CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST MEDIA RE-ARTICULATIONS

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4744-2675-1

9781474403931

1-4744-0393-X

OCLC:

1301547300