Overview

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

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Author:   Geoff King
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.021kg
ISBN:  

9781118758328

ISBN 10:   1118758323
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   09 December 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors viii Acknowledgements xii Introduction: What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field 1 Geoff King Part One Indie Culture 23 1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25 Michael Z. Newman 2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42 Sherry B. Ortner 3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58 Geoff King Part Two Indie and Other Media 81 4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83 James MacDowell 5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106 Jamie Sexton  6 Post]Cinema Soderbergh 129 Mark Gallagher  Part Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153 7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155 Erin Pearson  8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181 Finola Kerrigan  Part Four Movements/Moments 207 9 Proto]Indie: 1960s “Half]Way” Cinema 209 Janet Staiger 10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233 Yannis Tzioumakis  11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257 Thomas Schatz  12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279 J.J. Murphy Part Five Indie as Regional 301 13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303 Mary P. Erickson  14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325 John Berra  Part Six Aesthetics and Politics 347 15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle]Class Indie Identity 349 Claire Perkins  16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368 Claire Molloy  17 “They Believe Every Fuckin’ Word Because You’re Super Cool”: Masculine Cool ’90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389 Stella Bruzzi 18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles’ Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It’s You 407 Warren Buckland  Part Seven Kickstarting Indie 431 19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433 Chuck Tryon  20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452 Sarah E.S. Sinwell  Part Eight Indie Acting and Stardom 469 21 Casing Indie Acting 471 Chris Holmlund  22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands 493 Paul McDonald  Index 000

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Geoff King is Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University London, UK. He is the author of numerous books on American film topics, including American Independent Cinema (2005), Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema (2009), Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film (2014) and Quality Hollywood: Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film (2016).

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