Table of Contents
Contributors viii
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction: What Indie Isn’t… Mapping the Indie Field 1Geoff King
Part One Indie Culture 23
1 Indie Film as Indie Culture 25Michael Z. Newman
2 The Making of the Indie Scene: The Cultural Production of a Field of Cultural Production 42Sherry B. Ortner
3 Indie as Organic: Tracing Discursive Roots 58Geoff King
Part Two Indie and Other Media 81
4 Quirky Culture: Tone, Sensibility, and Structure of Feeling 83James MacDowell
5 Independent Intersections: Indie Music Cultures and American Indie Cinema 106Jamie Sexton
6 Post-Cinema Soderbergh 129Mark Gallagher
Part Three Criticism, Marketing, and Positioning Indie 153
7 Structuring Indie and Beasts of the Southern Wild: The Role of Review Journalism 155Erin Pearson
8 Marketing American Indie in the Shadow of Hollywood 181Finola Kerrigan
Part Four Movements/Moments 207
9 Proto-Indie: 1960s “Half-Way” Cinema 209Janet Staiger
10 From Independent to Indie: The Independent Feature Project and the Complex Relationship between American Independent Cinema and Hollywood in the 1980s 233Yannis Tzioumakis
11Going Mainstream: The Indie Film Movement in 1999 257Thomas Schatz
12 Looking through a Rearview Mirror: Mumblecore as Past Tense 279J.J. Murphy
Part Five Indie as Regional 301
13 The Pull of Place: Regional Indie Film Production 303Mary P. Erickson
14 Rural Crimewave: Reconfiguring Regional Spaces through Genre in US Indie Cinema 325John Berra
Part Six Aesthetics and Politics 347
15 Life During Wartime: Emotionalism, Capitalist Realism, and Middle-Class Indie Identity 349Claire Perkins
16 Indie Cinema and the Neoliberal Commodification of Creative Labor: Rethinking the Indie Sensibility of Christopher Nolan 368Claire Molloy
17 “They Believe Every Fuckin’ Word Because You’re Super Cool”: Masculine Cool ’90s Style in Reservoir Dogs 389Stella Bruzzi
18 The Craft of Independent Filmmaking: Editing in John Sayles’ Return of the Secaucus Seven and Baby It’s You 407Warren Buckland
Part Seven Kickstarting Indie 431
19 Crowdfunding, Independence, Authorship 433Chuck Tryon
20 Go Digital or Go Dark: Crowdfunding, Independent Financing, and Arthouse Exhibition on Kickstarter 452Sarah E.S. Sinwell
Part Eight Indie Acting and Stardom 469
21 Casing Indie Acting 471Chris Holmlund
22 Flexible Stardom: Contemporary American Film and the Independent Mobility of Star Brands 493Paul McDonald
Index 000