Companion to American Indie Film (eBook)

Geoff King is Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University London, UK. He is the author of numerous books on American film topics, including American Independent Cinema (2005), Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema (2009), Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film (2014) and Quality Hollywood: Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film (2016).

Contributors viii

Acknowledgements xii

Introduction: What Indie Isn't... Mapping the Indie Field 1
Geoff King

Part OneIndie Culture 23

1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25
Michael Z. Newman

2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42
Sherry B. Ortner

3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58
Geoff King

Part TwoIndie and Other Media 81

4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83
James MacDowell

5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106
Jamie Sexton

6 Post?]Cinema Soderbergh 129
Mark Gallagher

Part ThreeCriticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153

7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155
Erin Pearson

8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181
Finola Kerrigan

Part FourMovements/Moments 207

9 Proto?]Indie: 1960s "Half?]Way" Cinema 209
Janet Staiger

10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233
Yannis Tzioumakis

11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257
Thomas Schatz

12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279
J.J. Murphy

Part FiveIndie as Regional 301

13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303
Mary P. Erickson

14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325
John Berra

Part SixAesthetics and Politics 347

15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle?]Class Indie Identity 349
Claire Perkins

16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368
Claire Molloy

17 "They Believe Every Fuckin' Word Because You're Super Cool": Masculine Cool '90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389
Stella Bruzzi

18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles' Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It's You 407
Warren Buckland

Part SevenKickstarting Indie 431

19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433
Chuck Tryon

20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452
Sarah E.S. Sinwell

Part EightIndie Acting and Stardom 469

21 Casing Indie Acting 471
Chris Holmlund

22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands 493
Paul McDonald

Index 000