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Book Synopsis
A Companion to American Indie Film features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States.

Table of Contents

Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction: What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field 1
Geoff King

Part One Indie Culture 23

1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25
Michael Z. Newman

2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42
Sherry B. Ortner

3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58
Geoff King

Part Two Indie and Other Media 81

4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83
James MacDowell

5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106
Jamie Sexton

6 Post]Cinema Soderbergh 129
Mark Gallagher

Part Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153

7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155
Erin Pearson

8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181
Finola Kerrigan

Part Four Movements/Moments 207

9 Proto]Indie: 1960s “Half]Way” Cinema 209
Janet Staiger

10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233
Yannis Tzioumakis

11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257
Thomas Schatz

12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279
J.J. Murphy

Part Five Indie as Regional 301

13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303
Mary P. Erickson

14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325
John Berra

Part Six Aesthetics and Politics 347

15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle]Class Indie Identity 349
Claire Perkins

16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368
Claire Molloy

17 “They Believe Every Fuckin’ Word Because You’re Super Cool”: Masculine Cool ’90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389
Stella Bruzzi

18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles’ Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It’s You 407
Warren Buckland

Part Seven Kickstarting Indie 431

19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433
Chuck Tryon

20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452
Sarah E.S. Sinwell

Part Eight Indie Acting and Stardom 469

21 Casing Indie Acting 471
Chris Holmlund

22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands 493
Paul McDonald

Index 000

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 09/12/2016
      ISBN13: 9781118758328, 978-1118758328
      ISBN10: 1118758323
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A Companion to American Indie Film features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States.

      Table of Contents

      Contributors viii

      Acknowledgements xii

      Introduction: What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field 1
      Geoff King

      Part One Indie Culture 23

      1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25
      Michael Z. Newman

      2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42
      Sherry B. Ortner

      3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58
      Geoff King

      Part Two Indie and Other Media 81

      4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83
      James MacDowell

      5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106
      Jamie Sexton

      6 Post]Cinema Soderbergh 129
      Mark Gallagher

      Part Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153

      7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155
      Erin Pearson

      8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181
      Finola Kerrigan

      Part Four Movements/Moments 207

      9 Proto]Indie: 1960s “Half]Way” Cinema 209
      Janet Staiger

      10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233
      Yannis Tzioumakis

      11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257
      Thomas Schatz

      12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279
      J.J. Murphy

      Part Five Indie as Regional 301

      13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303
      Mary P. Erickson

      14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325
      John Berra

      Part Six Aesthetics and Politics 347

      15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle]Class Indie Identity 349
      Claire Perkins

      16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368
      Claire Molloy

      17 “They Believe Every Fuckin’ Word Because You’re Super Cool”: Masculine Cool ’90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389
      Stella Bruzzi

      18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles’ Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It’s You 407
      Warren Buckland

      Part Seven Kickstarting Indie 431

      19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433
      Chuck Tryon

      20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452
      Sarah E.S. Sinwell

      Part Eight Indie Acting and Stardom 469

      21 Casing Indie Acting 471
      Chris Holmlund

      22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands 493
      Paul McDonald

      Index 000

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