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327 p. : 24 cm This student-focused guide explores modern US independent cinema in depth and places it in context of its more general history. Starting with John Cassavetes and Shadows, it focuses on case studies of key films, blending detailed textual analysis with an exploration of each text's wider theoretical and historical contexts. In particular, it explores the defining period from 1989, when the creative talent met the moneymen the commercial potential of independent cinema was fully recognized and exploited. Discussions of Miramax and the Sundance Film Festival are paired with case studies of the work of Steven Soderbergh (Sex, lies and videotape), Quentin Tarantino (Pulp fiction), Todd Haynes (I'm not there), Gus Van Sant (Last days), David Lynch (Mulholland Drive), John Sayles (The return of the Secaucus Seven), Kimberly Peirce (Boys don't cry), Spike Lee (Do the right thing) and PT Anderson (There will be blood) American independent cinema : an overview -- Adopting an approach : tools for reading a film -- Keeping the 'hair in the gate' : authenticity and Shadows -- Making independence into cult : Romero and Night of the living dead -- Staying radical : Sayles' social r

Author

Rona Murray

Publisher

Leighton Buzzard [England]: Auteur

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781906733179

Subjects

Sports, Literary Fiction, History