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Includes detailed assessments of, and previously unpublished interviews with Jill Sprecher (Clockwatchers), James Mangold (Walk the Line) and Guy Maddin (The Saddest Music in the World)
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Will appeal to readers of Peter Biskind’s Down and Dirty Pictures
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Provides useful definitions for the widely used term 'independent cinema
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Considers the work of studios including Miramax and New Line
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Accompanying DVD features Paul Cronin’s Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, a documentary profile about the founder of the New York Film Festival and America’s most important film society
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Just what is ‘independent’ cinema? D. K. Holm aims to define a term all too carelessly used both by media commentators and marketers, and distinguish it from categories such as avant-garde, underground, experimental or ‘art’ films, with which it is often confused.
By contrasting studio-era Hollywood with changes in the business since the 1970s, and the rise of companies such as Miramax and New Line, it shows the birth of a commercial environment in which the new independent cinema can emerge.
Profiles of specific filmmakers suggest how diverse personalities use independent cinema for individual ends; directors such as James Mangold, who found indie cinema to be a stepping stone to more mainstream movies, Jill Sprecher, who uses its flexibility to explore philosophical ideas, and Guy Maddin, one of the few true independent filmmakers, whose films are beholden to his own unique vision rather than financiers or abstract audience markets.
D. K. Holm has written for Willamette Week, PDXS, among other publications, and now has columns at Kevin Smith's MoviePoopShoot.com. He edited an anthology of Robert Crumb interviews for the University of Mississippi Press and has a forthcoming book on Guy Maddin. He is the author of PEs on Quentin Tarantino and Robert Crumb and the Kamera Books title Independent Cinema
| release date: |
24 January 2008 |
| price: |
£9.99 |
| ISBN13: |
9781904048701 |
| binding: |
pb with flaps |
| format: |
194 X 135mm |
| extent: |
160 |
| images: |
10+ colour |
| rights: |
world |
| BIC code: |
APFN |
REVIEWS
well produced, comprehensive yet compact in size and succinct. They include focused content, reviews of key films and even relevant DVDs as part of the package! They border on the authoritive when it comes to content and offer overviews of major film genres in bite sized packages... of interest not only to the film fanatic but to any student of cinema, indeed they would prove of exceptional value in TAFE and University film courses
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- Synergy Magazine
FULL REVIEW
I must admit I am very taken with the Kamera range of film books. They are well produced, comprehensive yet compact in size and succinct. They include focused content, reviews of key films and even relevant DVDs as part of the package! They border on the authoritive when it comes to content and offer overviews of major film genres in bite sized packages.
These titles are of interest not only to the film fanatic but to any student of cinema, indeed they would prove of exceptional value in TAFE and University film courses. The volume on Independent Cinema is especially informative, in begins with an impressive overview of Independent Cinema with an insightful discussion of exactly what Independent Cinema is and then explore various “forms” of Independent Cinema in the chapters which follow. By choosing a limited number of proponents of Independent Cinema the author is able to get to the heart of the subject rather than packing the book with unnecessary “facts and figures”, rather than taking an encyclopedic approach, Independent Cinema stresses quality over quantity.
Holm then examines Independent Cinema as a means to enter the mainstream, as a form of autobiography and as truly micro-budget and Independent, each chapter focuses on specific major Independent filmmakers with related reviews of their major films. This is followed with an extensive discussion of the future of Independent Cinema and a range of interviews.
There is also a solid resources section outlining key DVDs, Books and websites.
As an added bonus there is a great DVD, Paul Cronin’s Film of Film as a Subversive Art which focuses on the work of Independent film-maker Amos Vogel.
Synergy Magazine
ebooks
Independent Cinema is now available as an ebook in the following formats:
KAMERA BOOKS TITLES
Independent Cinema
with bonus DVD featuring Paul Cronin’s ‘Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16’
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