A companion to American indie film

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. It takes a comprehensive and fresh new look at the topic of American indie film, and features newly commissioned essays from top film experts and emerging scholars that represent the state-of-the-art reference to the indie film field. Topics covered include: indie film culture; key historical moments and movements in indie film history; relationships between indie film and other indie media; and issues including class, gender, regional identity and stardom in in the indie field. The book also includes studies of many types of indie films and film genres, along with various filmmakers and performers that have come to define the field Introduction: What Indie Isn't: Mapping The Indie Field / Geoff King -- Indie Culture. Indie Film As Indie Culture / Michael Z. Newman -- The Making Of The Indie Scene: The Cultural Production Of A Field Of Cultural Production / Sherry B. Ortner -- Indie As Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots / Geoff King -- Indie And Other Media. Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, And Structure Of Feeling / James Macdowell -- Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures And American Indie Cinema / Jamie Sexton -- Post-cinema Soderbergh / Mark Gallagher -- Criticism, Marketing And Positioning Indie. Structuring Indie And Beasts Of The Southern Wild: The Role Of Review Journalism / Erin Pearson -- Marketing American Indie In The Shadow Of Hollywood / Finola Kerrigan -- Movements/moments. Proto-indie: 1960s Half-way Cinema / Janet Staiger --^ From Independence To Indie: The Independent Feature Project And The Complex Relationship Between American Independent Cinema And Hollywood In The 1980s / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement In 1999 / Thomas Schatz -- Looking Through A Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore As Past Tense / J.j. Murphy -- Indie As Regional. The Pull Of Place: Regional Indie Film Production / Mary P. Erickson -- Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces Through Genre In Us Indie Cinema / John Berra -- Aesthetics And Politics. Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism And Middle Class Indie Identity / Claire Perkins -- Indie Cinema And The Neoliberal Commodification Of Creative Labour: Rethinking The Indie Sensibility Of Christopher Nolan / Claire Molloy -- They Believe Every Fuckin' Word Because You're Super Cool?: Masculine Cool '90s Style In Reservoir Dogs / Stella Bruzzi --^ The Craft Of Independent Filmmaking: Editing In John Sayles' Return Of The Secaucus Seven And Baby It's You / Warren Buckland -- Kickstarting Indie. Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship / Chuck Tryon -- Go Digital Or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing And Art House Exhibition On Kickstarter / Sarah E.s. Sinwell -- Indie Acting And Stardom. Casing Indie Acting / Chris Holmlund -- Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film And The Independent Mobility Of Star Brands / Paul Mcdonald. Edited By Geoff King. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Content: Introduction / Geoff King -- Indie Culture. Indie Film as Indie Culture / Michael Z Newman -- The Making of the Indie Scene / Sherry B Ortner -- Indie as Organic / Geoff King -- Indie and Other Media. Quirky Culture / James MacDowell -- Independent Intersections / Jamie Sexton -- Post-Cinema Soderbergh / Mark Gallagher -- Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie. Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild / Erin Pearson -- Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood / Finola Kerrigan -- Movements/Moments. Proto-Indie / Janet Staiger -- From Independent to Indie / Yannis Tzioumakis -- Going Mainstream / Thomas Schatz -- Looking through a Rearview Mirror / JJ Murphy -- Indie as Regional. The Pull of Place / Mary P Erickson -- Rural Crimewave / John Berra -- Aesthetics and Politics. Life During Wartime / Claire Perkins -- Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor / Claire Molloy -- "They Believe Every Fuckin' Word Because You're Super Cool" / Stella Bruzzi -- The Craft of Independent Filmmaking / Warren Buckland -- Kickstarting Indie. Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship / Chuck Tryon -- Go Digital or Go Dark / Sarah ES Sinwell -- Indie Acting and Stardom. Casing Indie Acting / Chris Holmlund -- Flexible Stardom / Paul McDonald. -- Includes index.