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In this book, the author has published extensively on American cinema. It covers a range of well-known films and film-makers. This is the first book to analyse the relationship and interaction between Independent film and Hollywood.Indiewood is the place where Hollywood and the American independent sector meet, where lines blur and two very different kinds of cinema come together in a striking blend of creativity and commerce. This is an arena in which innovative, sometimes challenging cinema reaches out to the mainstream. Or, alternatively, a zone of duplicity and compromise in which the ‘true’ heritage of the indie sector is co-opted as an offshoot of Hollywood. “Indiewood” is the first book to provide objective analysis of this distinctive region of the contemporary American film landscape. Case studies include the work of Quentin Tarantino, Charlie Kaufman and Steven Soderbergh and the output of the studio ‘specialist’ divisions Miramax and Focus Features.From the stylized violence and cult film referencing of “Kill Bill” to the literary resonances of “Shakespeare in Love” and from the mind-bending scripts of Kaufman (“Being John Malkovich”, “Adaptation”, “Eternal Sunshine of t

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Author

King, Geoff (editor)

Publisher

I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781845118259

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, Marketing