Indie reframed : women's filmmaking and contemporary American independent cinema /
Indie reframed : women's filmmaking and contemporary American independent cinema /
edited by Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages) : illustrations
- Traditions in American cinema .
- Traditions in American cinema. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION CONTEXTS -- Women Make Movies: Chicken & Egg Pictures, Gamechanger Films and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking / Killer Feminism / `A Woman with an Endgame': Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures and American Independent Film Production / Susan Seidelman's Contemporary Films: The Feminist Art of Self-reinvention in a Changing Technological Landscape / `I'm Absolutely the Right Person for this Job': Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television / GENRES AND MODALITIES -- Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths' The Off Hours and Eden / Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women's Indies / My Effortless Brilliance: Women's Mumblecore / Black Women, Romance and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Sanaa Hamri / IDENTITIES -- From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home and Production Politics / Having its Cake and Eating it Too: Contemporary American `Indie' Cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed / Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons / Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko / Miranda July and the New Twenty-first-century Indie / COLLABORATIONS -- Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt / The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture / The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation and the Gender Politics of the Set / Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-articulations / Sarah E.S. Sinwell -- Patricia White -- James Lyons -- Christina Lane -- Michele Schreiber -- Geoff King -- Linda Badley -- Claire Perkins -- Shelley Cobb -- Kent A. Ono -- Lydia Papadimitriou -- Cynthia Baron -- Maria San Filippo -- Kathleen A. McHugh -- Chris Holmlund -- Corinn Columpar -- John Alberti -- Patricia R. Zimmermann. pt. I 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. pt. II 6. 7. 8. 9. pt. III 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. pt. IV 15. 16. 17. 18.
Explores the films, practitioners, production and distribution contexts that currently represent American women's independent cinemaWith the consolidation of ÃǾ²Ơ℗indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋maverick' white male auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson as the face of indie discourse. Defying the formulaic myths of the mainstream ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋chick flick' and the ideological and experimental radicalism of feminist counter-cinema alike, women's indie filmmaking is neither ironic, popular nor political enough to be readily absorbed into pre-existing categories. This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋difference' of female indie filmmaking. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed. Key Features Covers American women's independent cinema since the late 1970s Analyses the work of acclaimed but critically overlooked female practitioners such as Kelly Reichardt, Christine Vachon, Miranda July, Kasi Lemmons, Nicole Holofcener, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko, Megan Ellison, Lynn Shelton, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron and Debra Granik Distinguishes four different approaches to analysing women's independent cinema through: production and industry perspectives; genre and other classificatory modalities; political, cultural, social and professional identities; and collaborative and collectivist practices Contributors John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton Corinn Columpar, University of Toronto Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Geoff King, Brunel University, London Christina Lane, University of Miami James Lyons, University of Exeter Kathleen A. McHugh, UCLA Kent A. Ono, University of Utah Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University Claudia Costa Pederson, Wichita State University Claire Perkins, Monash University Sarah Projansky, University of Utah Maria San Filippo, Goucher College Michele Schreiber, Emory University Sarah E.S. Sinwell, University of Utah Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool Patricia White, Swarthmore College Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College Explores the films, practitioners, production and distribution contexts that currently represent American women's independent cinemaWith the consolidation of ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋maverick' white male auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson as the face of indie discourse. Defying the formulaic myths of the mainstream ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋chick flick' and the ideological and experimental radicalism of feminist counter-cinema alike, women's indie filmmaking is neither ironic, popular nor political enough to be readily absorbed into pre-existing categories. This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋difference' of female indie filmmaking. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed. Key Features Covers American women's independent cinema since the late 1970s Analyses the work of acclaimed but critically overlooked female practitioners such as Kelly Reichardt, Christine Vachon, Miranda July, Kasi Lemmons, Nicole Holofcener, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko, Megan Ellison, Lynn Shelton, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron and Debra Granik Distinguishes four different approaches to analysing women's independent cinema through: production and industry perspectives; genre and other classificatory modalities; political, cultural, social and professional identities; and collaborative and collectivist practices Contributors John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton Corinn Columpar, University of Toronto Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Geoff King, Brunel University, London Christina Lane, University of Miami James Lyons, University of Exeter Kathleen A. McHugh, UCLA Kent A. Ono, University of Utah Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University Claudia Costa Pederson, Wichita State University Claire Perkins, Monash University Sarah Projansky, University of Utah Maria San Filippo, Goucher College Michele Schreiber, Emory University Sarah E.S. Sinwell, University of Utah Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool Patricia White, Swarthmore College Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College
9781474403931 (electronic bk.) 147440393X (electronic bk.) 9781474403955 (epub) 1474403956 (epub) (paperback) (paperback) (hardback) (hardback)
22573/ctt1f5h7bj JSTOR
2017296107
GBB8K7511 bnb
019111327 Uk
1900-2099
Independent films--History and criticism.--United States
Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.
Motion picture industry--History--United States--20th century.
Motion picture industry--History--United States--21st century.
Films indépendants--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma--États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Independent films.
Motion picture industry.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN1993.5.U6 / I53 2016eb
791.43073
Includes bibliographical references and index.
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION CONTEXTS -- Women Make Movies: Chicken & Egg Pictures, Gamechanger Films and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking / Killer Feminism / `A Woman with an Endgame': Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures and American Independent Film Production / Susan Seidelman's Contemporary Films: The Feminist Art of Self-reinvention in a Changing Technological Landscape / `I'm Absolutely the Right Person for this Job': Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television / GENRES AND MODALITIES -- Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths' The Off Hours and Eden / Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women's Indies / My Effortless Brilliance: Women's Mumblecore / Black Women, Romance and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Sanaa Hamri / IDENTITIES -- From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home and Production Politics / Having its Cake and Eating it Too: Contemporary American `Indie' Cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed / Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons / Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko / Miranda July and the New Twenty-first-century Indie / COLLABORATIONS -- Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt / The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture / The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation and the Gender Politics of the Set / Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-articulations / Sarah E.S. Sinwell -- Patricia White -- James Lyons -- Christina Lane -- Michele Schreiber -- Geoff King -- Linda Badley -- Claire Perkins -- Shelley Cobb -- Kent A. Ono -- Lydia Papadimitriou -- Cynthia Baron -- Maria San Filippo -- Kathleen A. McHugh -- Chris Holmlund -- Corinn Columpar -- John Alberti -- Patricia R. Zimmermann. pt. I 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. pt. II 6. 7. 8. 9. pt. III 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. pt. IV 15. 16. 17. 18.
Explores the films, practitioners, production and distribution contexts that currently represent American women's independent cinemaWith the consolidation of ÃǾ²Ơ℗indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋maverick' white male auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson as the face of indie discourse. Defying the formulaic myths of the mainstream ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋chick flick' and the ideological and experimental radicalism of feminist counter-cinema alike, women's indie filmmaking is neither ironic, popular nor political enough to be readily absorbed into pre-existing categories. This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋difference' of female indie filmmaking. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed. Key Features Covers American women's independent cinema since the late 1970s Analyses the work of acclaimed but critically overlooked female practitioners such as Kelly Reichardt, Christine Vachon, Miranda July, Kasi Lemmons, Nicole Holofcener, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko, Megan Ellison, Lynn Shelton, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron and Debra Granik Distinguishes four different approaches to analysing women's independent cinema through: production and industry perspectives; genre and other classificatory modalities; political, cultural, social and professional identities; and collaborative and collectivist practices Contributors John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton Corinn Columpar, University of Toronto Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Geoff King, Brunel University, London Christina Lane, University of Miami James Lyons, University of Exeter Kathleen A. McHugh, UCLA Kent A. Ono, University of Utah Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University Claudia Costa Pederson, Wichita State University Claire Perkins, Monash University Sarah Projansky, University of Utah Maria San Filippo, Goucher College Michele Schreiber, Emory University Sarah E.S. Sinwell, University of Utah Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool Patricia White, Swarthmore College Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College Explores the films, practitioners, production and distribution contexts that currently represent American women's independent cinemaWith the consolidation of ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋indie' culture in the 21st century, female filmmakers face an increasingly indifferent climate. Within this sector, women work across all aspects of writing, direction, production, editing and design, yet the dominant narrative continues to construe ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋maverick' white male auteurs such as Quentin Tarantino or Wes Anderson as the face of indie discourse. Defying the formulaic myths of the mainstream ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋chick flick' and the ideological and experimental radicalism of feminist counter-cinema alike, women's indie filmmaking is neither ironic, popular nor political enough to be readily absorbed into pre-existing categories. This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋difference' of female indie filmmaking. Through a variety of case studies of directors, writers and producers such as Ava DuVernay, Lena Dunham and Christine Vachon, contributors explore the innovation of a range of female practitioners by attending to the sensibilities, ideologies and industrial practices that distinguish their work - while embracing the ÃǾ²Ơ℗₋in-between' space in which the narratives they represent and embody can be revealed. Key Features Covers American women's independent cinema since the late 1970s Analyses the work of acclaimed but critically overlooked female practitioners such as Kelly Reichardt, Christine Vachon, Miranda July, Kasi Lemmons, Nicole Holofcener, Mira Nair, Lisa Cholodenko, Megan Ellison, Lynn Shelton, Ava DuVernay, Mary Harron and Debra Granik Distinguishes four different approaches to analysing women's independent cinema through: production and industry perspectives; genre and other classificatory modalities; political, cultural, social and professional identities; and collaborative and collectivist practices Contributors John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University Linda Badley, Middle Tennessee State University Cynthia Baron, Bowling Green State University Shelley Cobb, University of Southampton Corinn Columpar, University of Toronto Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Geoff King, Brunel University, London Christina Lane, University of Miami James Lyons, University of Exeter Kathleen A. McHugh, UCLA Kent A. Ono, University of Utah Lydia Papadimitriou, Liverpool John Moores University Claudia Costa Pederson, Wichita State University Claire Perkins, Monash University Sarah Projansky, University of Utah Maria San Filippo, Goucher College Michele Schreiber, Emory University Sarah E.S. Sinwell, University of Utah Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool Patricia White, Swarthmore College Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ithaca College
9781474403931 (electronic bk.) 147440393X (electronic bk.) 9781474403955 (epub) 1474403956 (epub) (paperback) (paperback) (hardback) (hardback)
22573/ctt1f5h7bj JSTOR
2017296107
GBB8K7511 bnb
019111327 Uk
1900-2099
Independent films--History and criticism.--United States
Women motion picture producers and directors--United States.
Motion picture industry--History--United States--20th century.
Motion picture industry--History--United States--21st century.
Films indépendants--Histoire et critique.--États-Unis
Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma--États-Unis.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--Reference.
Independent films.
Motion picture industry.
Women motion picture producers and directors.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PN1993.5.U6 / I53 2016eb
791.43073