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US Independent Film After 1989 - Possible Films (Hardcover)
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US Independent Film After 1989 - Possible Films (Hardcover)
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This is a study of US independent films marginalised in and by the
rise of 'indie' culture. In contemporary film and popular culture
the terms 'independent' and 'indie' hold instant recognition and
considerable cultural cachet. As both a brand of American
filmmaking and a keynote of critical film discourse, indie denotes
specific textual, industrial and reception practices that have been
enthusiastically cultivated across the last decade of the 20th
century and the first of the 21st. Underpinning this cultural
category is a canon of highly visible films and filmmakers whose
'maverick' personas and self aware stylisation have successfully
sold 'indie' as a quality, alternative worldview - figures like
Quentin Tarantino, Joel and Ethan Coen, Kevin Smith and Wes
Anderson, and films like Slacker, Memento, Happiness and Juno. US
Independent Filmmaking After 1989: Possible Films reframes this
dominant 'indie' canon by attending to a group of films that have
not been so fully subsumed by its critical and promotional
rhetoric. In 20 close analyses, a diverse range of leading film
scholars and commentators allow the contours of the indie
sensibility to emerge in and through their individual experiences
of a single film that has not received the sustained critical
acclaim of more popular titles. With particular representation from
female directors - who are almost wholly excluded from the dominant
'indie' canon - these idiosyncratic films are shown to demonstrate
central tenets of 'indie' scholarship and simultaneously emphasise
the classifying processes that obscure them. It provides 20 textual
studies of under evaluated US 'indie' films. It develops an
expanded understanding of US 'indie' film culture. It also
identifies the contribution of a community of US 'indie' filmmakers
and actors, with a particular emphasis on women practitioners.
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