Indie Reframed : : Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema / / Claire Perkins, Michele Schreiber, Linda Badley.

Explores the films, practitioners, production and distribution contexts that currently represent American women's independent cinemaWith the consolidation of 'indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Traditions in American Cinema : TAC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
  • INTRODUCTION Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber
  • PART I. PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION CONTEXTS
  • 1. WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES, GAMECHANGER FILMS AND THE FUTURE OF FEMALE INDEPENDENT FILMMAKING
  • 2. KILLER FEMINISM
  • 3. 'A WOMAN WITH AN ENDGAME': MEGAN ELLISON, ANNAPURNA PICTURES AND AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCTION
  • 4. SUSAN SEIDELMAN'S CONTEMPORARY FILMS: THE FEMINIST ART OF SELF-REINVENTION IN A CHANGING TECHNOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE
  • 5. 'I'M ABSOLUTELY THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THIS JOB': ALLISON ANDERS AND MARY HARRON ON LIFETIME TELEVISION
  • PART II GENRES AND MODALITIES
  • 6. GENDER, GENRE AND MORE GENERAL INDIE DIMENSIONS IN MEGAN GRIFFITHS' THE OFF HOURS AND EDEN
  • 7. DOWN TO THE BONE: NEO-NEOREALISM AND GENRE IN CONTEMPORARY WOMEN'S INDIES
  • 8. MY EFFORTLESS BRILLIANCE: WOMEN'S MUMBLECORE
  • 9. BLACK WOMEN, ROMANCE AND THE INDIEWOOD ROM COMS OF SANAA HAMRI
  • PART III IDENTITIES
  • 10. FROM DOCUMENTARY TO FICTIONAL REALISM: MIRA NAIR'S DOCUMENTARY ROOTS, FICTIONAL HOME AND PRODUCTION POLITICS
  • 11. HAVING ITS CAKE AND EATING IT TOO: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN 'INDIE' CINEMA AND MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING REFRAMED
  • 12. NOT JUST INDIE: A LOOK AT FILMS BY DEE REES, AVA DUVERNAY AND KASI LEMMONS
  • 13. SEXUAL IN-BETWEENER/INDUSTRY IN-BETWEENER: THE CAREER AND FILMS OF LISA CHOLODENKO
  • 14. MIRANDA JULY AND THE NEW TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY INDIE
  • PART IV COLLABORATIONS
  • 15. MUTUAL MUSES IN AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM: CATHERINE KEENER AND NICOLE HOLOFCENER, MICHELLE WILLIAMS AND KELLY REICHARDT
  • 16. THE FEMINIST POLITICS OF COLLABORATION IN LENA DUNHAM'S TINY FURNITURE
  • 17. THE DIRECTOR AS FACILITATOR: COLLABORATION, COOPERATION AND THE GENDER POLITICS OF THE SET
  • 18. BEYOND THE SCREEN: ON CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST MEDIA RE-ARTICULATIONS
  • INDEX