Chapters of Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream

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Christine Holmlund; Justin Wyatt

Year of Publication

2004

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Routledge

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New York

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9780415254861, 9780415254878, 9781134576180, 9780203312964, 9781134576203, 9781134576166, 9781134576210, 0415254868, 0415254876

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1666173863113

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Introduction: from the margins to the mainstream	CHRIS HOLMLUND	17-36
PART I Critical formations		37-38
Introduction to ‘critical formations’	CHRIS HOLMLUND	39-42
Ordinary people, European-style: or how to spot an independent feature	ANNETTE INSDORF	43-50
Independence for independents	JONAS MEKAS	51-56
Dimension Pictures: portrait of a 1970s’ independent	ED LOWRY	57-68
End of the indies: Death of the Sayles men	JON JOST	69-74
Alternative cinemas	DAVID E. JAMES	75-84
PART II Cult ﬁlm/cool ﬁlm		85-86
‘Queen of the indies’: Parker Posey’s niche stardom and the taste cultures of independent ﬁlm	DIANE NEGRA	87-104
Dark, disturbing, intelligent, provocative, and quirky: avant-garde cinema of the 1980s and 1990s	JOAN HAWKINS	105-122
Communitarianism, ﬁlm entrepreneurism, and the crusade of Troma Entertainment	IAN CONRICH	123-138
PART III Iconoclasts and auteurs		139-140
John Sayles, independent ﬁlmmaker: ‘Bet on yourself ’	DIANE CARSON	141-156
Haile Gerima: ‘Sacred shield of culture’	MARK A. REID	157-170
Seminal fantasies: Wakeﬁeld Poole, pornography, independent cinema and the avant-garde JOSÉ B. CAPINO		171-190
PART IV Identity hooks ⇔ cultural binds		191-192
Generation Q’s ABCs: queer kids and 1990s’ independent ﬁlms	CHRIS HOLMLUND	193-208
Just another girl outside the neo-indie	CHRISTINA LANE	209-226
Guests at The Wedding Banquet: the cinema of the Chinese diaspora and the rise of the American independents	GINA MARCHETTI	227-242
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