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The Making of Alternative Cinema (Paperback)
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The Making of Alternative Cinema (Paperback)
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The massive investments made in Hollywood today mandate tight
studio controls on mainstream cinema. As a result, one must often
look to alternative outlets in order to see a movie intended
primarily as art-or even as a sincere effort at
entertainment-instead of as a simple source of revenue. Foreign and
independent movies thus often play the role of bellwether for the
Hollywood studios that are unable to experiment themselves: behind
the look of the studio smash Sin City, for instance, was the
rigorous pulp style of Road to Perdition; before the sadism and
cynicism of many current thrillers and horror movies there was the
work of Neil Labute; and where would Hollywood's plots be without
the harsh, fragmented narratives of Guillermo Arriaga and Alejandro
Inarritu? By looking at these films, and at the people who created
them,we can obtain a clearer sense of what movies really are at
heart, and what they may still want to become. Elaborate measures
are thus taken everywhere and at all points to maintain a grip on
the public's imagination, but the more adept Hollywood becomes at
giving the public what it wants, the less any given studio is able
to say anything new or truly innovative. Inside of the United
States, this means looking to independent films; outside of the
United States, it means filtering through an enormous mass of
movies and moviemakers. In Volume 1 of this revealing set, Mario
Falsetto presents extended interviews with nine of the most
prominent independent film directors working in America today;
while in Volume 2, Liza Bear gives prominent international
filmmakers the opportunity to address essential issues surrounding
creativity and production in a number of different geographical
setting and contexts.
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