American Independent Cinema
Subtitle: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780748693603
Subjects: Film criticism; Motion pictures, united states
Description: "Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie to the western, American independent films deal in images of crisis, transition and metamorphosis, offering a subversive engagement with more traditional modes of representation." -- Back cover.