American independent cinema
Subtitle: indie, indiewood and beyond
By: edited by Geoff King, Claire Molloy and Yannis Tzioumakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780415684286; 9780415684293; 9780203143704
Subjects: Independent filmmakers; History and criticism; Independent films
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Independent of what? sorting out differences from hollywood / Janet Staiger; title: "Independent", "Indie" and "Indiewood": towards a periodisation of contemporary (post-1980) American independent cinema / Yannis Tzioumakis; title: Thriving or in permanent crisis? Discourses on the state of indie cinema / Geoff King; title: Quirky: buzzword or sensibility? / James MacDowell; title: Movies for Hipsters / Michael Z. Newman; title: Discerning independents: Steven Soderbergh and transhistorical taste cultures / Mark Gallagher; title: Their own personal velocity: women directors and contemporary independent cinema / Michele Schreiber; title: Last indie standing: the special case of Lions Gate in the new millennium / Alisa Perren; title: Conglomerate Hollywood and American independent film / Thomas Schatz; title: Reputational capital, creative conflict and Hollywood independence: the case of Hal Ashby / Philip Drake; title: The limits of autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood and independent filmmaking, 1950-53 / Peter Krämer; title: Independent nature: wildlife films between Hollywood and indiewood / Claire Molloy; title: In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: independent Christian filmmaking / James Russell; title: Welcome to the (neo) grindhouse! sex, violence and the indie film / Sarah Wharton; title: Faux feal? C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as the response to The Birth of a Nation / Novotny Lawrence; title: Measuring online word-of-mouth: the initial reception of Inland Empire (2006) on the Web / Warren Buckland.