{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-indie-film-9781118758328","title":"A Companion to American Indie Film","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeoff King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One Indie Culture 23\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Z. Newman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSherry B. Ortner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeoff King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two Indie and Other Media 81\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames MacDowell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamie Sexton \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Post]Cinema Soderbergh 129\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMark Gallagher \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eErin Pearson \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinola Kerrigan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four Movements\/Moments 207\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Proto]Indie: 1960s “Half]Way” Cinema 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanet Staiger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eYannis Tzioumakis \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThomas Schatz \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ.J. Murphy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five Indie as Regional 301\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMary P. Erickson \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Berra\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Six Aesthetics and Politics 347\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle]Class Indie Identity 349\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Perkins \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Molloy\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 “They Believe Every Fuckin’ Word Because You’re Super Cool”: Masculine Cool ’90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStella Bruzzi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles’ Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It’s You 407\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWarren Buckland \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Seven Kickstarting Indie 431\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChuck Tryon\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah E.S. 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