American Independent Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

indie, indiewood and beyond
Redaktion: King, Geoff; Tzioumakis, Yannis; Molloy, Claire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years few topics within film studies, and especially Hollywood cinema, have attracted more attention than American independent cinema. Written by some of the leading authors in the field, American independent cinema: indie, indiewood and beyond will introduce students to recent developments as well as reviewing, reassessing and revising particular positions, approaches and arguments concerning American independent cinema.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136501326
• Artikelnr.: 38270281

Autorenporträt

Geoff King is Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University and author of five books focused on the independent sector, including American Independent Cinema (2005), Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema (2009) and Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary Indie Film (2012). Claire Molloy is Professor of Film, Television and Digital Media at Edge Hill University. She is the author and editor of three books including Memento (2010), a volume in the 'American Indies' series, and has published widely on various film topics in edited collections and journals. Yannis Tzioumakis is Lecturer in Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of three books on independent filmmaking, including American Independent Cinema: An Introduction (2006) and Hollywood's Indies: Classics Divisions, Specialty Labels and the American Film Market (2012). He also co-edits the series 'American Indies, ' which has published five volumes since 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Independent of What? Sorting out
differences from Hollywood, Janet Staiger Chapter 2 'Independent', 'Indie'
and 'Indiewood': towards a periodisation of contemporary (post-1980)
American independent cinema, Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 3 Thriving or in
Permanent Crisis? Discourses on the state of indie cinema, Geoff King
Chapter 4 Quirky: buzzword or sensibility?, James MacDowell Part 2
Introduction Chapter 5 Movies for Hipsters, Michael Z. Newman Chapter 6
Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and transhistorical taste
cultures, Mark Gallagher Chapter 7 Their Own Personal Velocity: women
directors and contemporary independent cinema, Michele Schreiber Chapter 8
Last Indie Standing: the special case of Lions Gate in the new millennium,
Alisa Perren Part 3 Introduction Chapter 9 Conglomerate Hollywood and
American Independent Film, Thomas Schatz Chapter 10 Reputational capital,
creative conflict and Hollywood independence: the case of Hal Ashby,
Philip Drake Chapter 11 The Limits of Autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood
and independent filmmaking, 1950-53, Peter Krämer Chapter 12 Independent
nature: wildlife films between Hollywood and indiewood, Claire Molloy Part
4 Introduction Chapter 13 In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: Independent
Christian Filmmaking, James Russell Chapter 14 Welcome to the (neo)
grindhouse! Sex, violence and the indie film, Sarah Wharton Chapter 15 Faux
Real? C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as the response to The
Birth of a Nation, Novotny Lawrence Chapter 16 Measuring Online
Word-of-Mouth: The Initial Reception of Inland Empire (2006) on the Web,
Warren Buckland