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Contemporary American independent film : from the margins to the mainstream / edited by Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Lonon : Routledge, c2005.Description: xvi, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415254876 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430973 CON
Contents:
List of illustrations - Notes on contributors - Acknowledgements - 1. Introduction: from the margins to the mainstream -- Part 1 Critical formations - 2. Introduction to 'critical formations' - 3. Ordinary people, European-style: or how to spot an independent feature - 4. Independence for independents - 5. Dimension pictures: portrait of a 1970s' independent - 6. End of the indies: Death of the Sayles men - 7. Alternative cinemas -- Part II - Cult film / cool film - 8. 'Queen of the indies': Parker posey's niche stardom and the taste cultures of independent film - 9. Dark, disturbing, intelligent, provocative, and quirky: avant-garde cinema of the 1980s and 1990s - 10. Communitarianism, film entrepreneurism and the crusade of Troma Entertainment -- Part III - Iconoclasts and auteurs - 11. John Sayles, independent filmmaker: 'Bet on yourself' - 12. Haile Gerima: 'Sacred shield of culture' - 13. Seminal fantasies: Wakefield poole, pornography, independent cinema and the avant-garde -- Part IV - Identity hooks - cultural binds - 14. Generation Q's ABCs: queer kids and 1990s' independent films - 15. Just another girl outside the neo-indie - 16. Guests at the Wedding Banquet: the cinema of the Chinese diaspora and the rise of the American independents -- Part V - Shifting markets, changing media - 17. Revisiting 1970s' independent distribution and marketing strategies - 18. Digital deployment(s) - 19. The IFC and Sundance: channeling independence - Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations - Notes on contributors - Acknowledgements - 1. Introduction: from the margins to the mainstream -- Part 1 Critical formations - 2. Introduction to 'critical formations' - 3. Ordinary people, European-style: or how to spot an independent feature - 4. Independence for independents - 5. Dimension pictures: portrait of a 1970s' independent - 6. End of the indies: Death of the Sayles men - 7. Alternative cinemas -- Part II - Cult film / cool film - 8. 'Queen of the indies': Parker posey's niche stardom and the taste cultures of independent film - 9. Dark, disturbing, intelligent, provocative, and quirky: avant-garde cinema of the 1980s and 1990s - 10. Communitarianism, film entrepreneurism and the crusade of Troma Entertainment -- Part III - Iconoclasts and auteurs - 11. John Sayles, independent filmmaker: 'Bet on yourself' - 12. Haile Gerima: 'Sacred shield of culture' - 13. Seminal fantasies: Wakefield poole, pornography, independent cinema and the avant-garde -- Part IV - Identity hooks - cultural binds - 14. Generation Q's ABCs: queer kids and 1990s' independent films - 15. Just another girl outside the neo-indie - 16. Guests at the Wedding Banquet: the cinema of the Chinese diaspora and the rise of the American independents -- Part V - Shifting markets, changing media - 17. Revisiting 1970s' independent distribution and marketing strategies - 18. Digital deployment(s) - 19. The IFC and Sundance: channeling independence - Index.