Overview
This book explores the role that talent intermediaries, including talent agents, talent managers and producers, play in packaging, marketing and selling screen media products, services and brands by constructing and positioning their clients and collaborators as indie-auteurs. Exploring several case-studies across a range of screen media during an era of media convergence, including American indie cinema, high-end television, music video, advertising and branded content, the book explores the strategies that talent intermediaries adopt and the industrial, cultural and social connotations and hierarchies that indie-auteurism as a promotional discourse and tool carries and reinforces. As a result, the book stakes out new ground that complicates popular ideas of indie-auteurs as highly autonomous and innovative filmmakers by exploring how this authorial discourse migrates between media and is constructed and reconfigured in relation to changing industrial and cultural contexts.
Full Product Details
Author: Andrew Stubbs-Lacy (Senior Lecturer, Staffordshire University)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474482653
ISBN 10: 1474482651
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 27 February 2026
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Reviews
""Although the idea of indie film authorship remains potent, it comes under intense scrutiny in The Talent Management of Indie Authorship. In this remarkable study, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy demonstrates compellingly how such authorship is painstakingly (re-)packaged and (re-)produced by talent intermediaries as they guide their clients’ navigation of an increasingly converged media industries landscape."" -- Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool (Author of American Independent Cinema) ""Through his focus on talent managers and producers, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy offers a fresh take on the dynamic relationship between American independent film and the media industries since the 1980s. He skillfully illustrates how these intermediaries helped a range of writer-directors build and sustain their indie brand identities as they moved across different media forms."" * Alisa Perren, Director of Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, University of Texas * Significantly contributes to the ongoing enquiry concerning the cultural impact of Hollywood and the nature and limits of “creative labour”. -- Barry King * The Political Economy of Communication *
""Although the idea of indie film authorship remains potent, it comes under intense scrutiny in The Talent Management of Indie Authorship. In this remarkable study, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy demonstrates compellingly how such authorship is painstakingly (re-)packaged and (re-)produced by talent intermediaries as they guide their clients' navigation of an increasingly converged media industries landscape."" --Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool (Author of American Independent Cinema) ""Through his focus on talent managers and producers, Andrew Stubbs-Lacy offers a fresh take on the dynamic relationship between American independent film and the media industries since the 1980s. He skillfully illustrates how these intermediaries helped a range of writer-directors build and sustain their indie brand identities as they moved across different media forms."" -- ""Alisa Perren, Director of Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, University of Texas""
Author Information
Dr. Andrew Stubbs-Lacy is senior lecturer of Film Industries and Studies at Staffordshire University.
