Indie Reframed Women's Filmmaking and Contemporary American Independent Cinema

by Badley, Linda; Perkins, Claire; Schreiber, Michele

• ISBN13: 9781474403924
• ISBN10: 1474403921
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-11-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Linda Badley is Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.

Claire Perkins is Assistant Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the School of English, Communication and Performance Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Michele Schreiber is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber

Part 1: Production and Distribution Contexts
1: Women Make Movies: Gamechanger Films, Chicken and Egg Pictures and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking, Sarah Sinwell
2: Killer Feminism, Patricia White
3: 'A Woman with an Endgame': Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures, and American Independent Film Production, James Lyons
4: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It: Pioneering Practices in the Frontier of Micro-budget Filmmaking, Christina Lane
5: 'I'm Absolutely the Right Person for this Job': Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television, Michele Schreiber

Part II: Genres and Modalities
1: Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths' The Off Hours and Eden, Geoff King
2: Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women's Indies, Linda Badley
3: My Effortless Brilliance: Women's Mumblecore, Claire Perkins
4: Black Women, Romance, and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Saana Hamri, Shelley Cobb

Part III: Identities
1: From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home, and Production Politics, Sarah Projansky and Kent Ono
2: Having Its Cake and Eating It Too: Contemporary American 'Indie' cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed, Yannis Tzioumakis and Lydia Papadimitriou
3: Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons, Cynthia Baron
4: Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko, Maria San Filippo
5: Miranda July and the New 21st Century Indie, Kathleen McHugh

Part IV: Collaborations
1: Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Nicole Holofcener and Catherine Keener, Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, Chris Holmlund
2: The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, Corinn Columpar
3: The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation, and the Gender Politics of the Set, John Alberti
4: Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-Articulations, Claudia Costa Pederson and Patricia R. Zimmermann