The American Film Institute And The Cultural Politics Of Experimental And Independent Cinema

Author : Gracia Ramirez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666928082

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The American Film Institute and the Cultural Politics of Experimental and Independent Cinema by Gracia Ramirez Pdf

This book examines the role that the American Film Institute (AFI) had in supporting experimental and independent cinema at a key moment of change in the history of American film. Weaving a rich historical narrative, Ramirez argues that the Cold War struggle for cultural supremacy motivated the creation of the federally-funded AFI. Exploring the intersection of business interests and political objectives, Ramirez demonstrates how the AFI’s approach to experimental and independent cinema was marked by an interest in promoting innovative aesthetics and protecting the creative freedom of filmmakers but lacked the attention to distribution and exhibition that would strengthen the viability of experimental and independent filmmaking as professional practices. Scholars of film, history, and American studies will find this work particularly useful.

Author : Albert Moran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134859986

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Film Policy by Albert Moran Pdf

Film Policy is the first comprehensive overview of the workings of the international film industry. The authors examine film cultures and film policy across the world, explaining why Hollywood cinema dominates the global film market, and the effects of the rise of television and video on the international industry. In a series of case studies drawn from North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia, the authors explore the relationship between Hollywood cinema product and national film cultures, and trace the development of international and national film policies, looking at issues of financing, regulation, protectionism and censorship.

Author : Sue Clayton,Laura Mulvey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786722041

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Other Cinemas by Sue Clayton,Laura Mulvey Pdf

The 1970s was an enormously creative period for experimental film. Its innovations and debates have had far-reaching and long-lasting influence, with a resurgence of interest in the decade revealed by new gallery events, film screenings and social networks that recognise its achievements. Professor Laura Mulvey, and writer/director Sue Clayton, bring together journalists and scholars at the cutting edge of research into 1970s radical cinema for this collection. Chapters are at once historically grounded yet fused with the current analysis of today's generation of cine-philes, to rediscover a unique moment for extraordinary film production. Other Cinemas establishes the factors that helped to shape alternative film: world cinema and internationalism, the politics of cultural policy and arts funding, new accessible technologies, avant-garde theories, and the development of a dynamic and interactive relationship between film and its audiences. Exploring and celebrating the work of The Other Cinema, the London Film-makers' Co-op and other cornerstones of today's film culture, as well as the impact of creatives such as William Raban and Stephen Dwoskin - and Mulvey and Clayton themselves - this important book takes account of a wave of socially aware film practice without which today's activist, queer, minority and feminist voices would have struggled to gather such volume.

Author : Wheeler W. Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Experimental films
ISBN : 0415277876

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Experimental Cinema by Wheeler W. Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

Brings together key writings on American avant-garde cinema to explore the long tradition of underground filmmaking from its origins in the 1920s to the work of contemporary film and video artists.

Author : Linda Badley,Claire Perkins,Michele Schreiber
Publisher : Traditions in American Cinema
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1474403948

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Indie Reframed by Linda Badley,Claire Perkins,Michele Schreiber Pdf

This ground-breaking collection, the first sustained examination of the work of female practitioners within American independent cinema, reclaims the 'difference' of female indie filmmaking.

Author : Chris Beasley,Heather Brook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-12
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : 0719082986

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The Cultural Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Film by Chris Beasley,Heather Brook Pdf

Using an innovative syncretic 'cultural politics' approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood narratives.

Author : Scott MacDonald
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780520227385

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The Garden in the Machine by Scott MacDonald Pdf

"This book is MacDonald's magnum opus: it represents a deep immersion in and advocacy for independent, experimental cinema."—Patricia R. Zimmerman, author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies "This is a brilliant study--learned, authoritative, and often eloquent. One reads this book with astonishment at the wealth of thoughtful and playful and provocative work that has occurred in this medium--and astonishment too that most scholars of environmental literature and nature in the visual arts have had minimal contact with independent film and video. MacDonald provides an immensely valuable, readable overview of this field, profoundly relevant to my own work and that of many other contemporary ecocritics."—Scott Slovic, editor of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment "The Garden in the Machine is clearly MacDonald's major work. It is very original and wide reaching especially in its analysis of the relationship of American avant-garde films to the poetry and painting of the native landscape. MacDonald's authority is evident everywhere: he probably knows more about most of the films he discusses than anyone alive."—P. Adams Sitney, author of Modernist Montage : The Obscurity of Vision in Cinema and Literature "The Garden in the Machine reflects Scott MacDonald's career-long lived engagement with avant-garde film and filmmakers. With deep respect for the artists and a rich, wide-ranging curiosity about the cultural histories that inform these films, MacDonald makes a powerful argument for why they should be screened, taught, and discussed within the wider context of American Studies. Throughout, MacDonald analyzes themes of race, history, personal and public memory, and the central role of avant-garde films in shaping our possible futures."—Angela Miller, author of Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875

Author : Chris Holmlund,Justin Wyatt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780415254861

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Contemporary American Independent Film by Chris Holmlund,Justin Wyatt Pdf

This anthology addresses the salient aesthetic, ideological and economic determinants of independent American cinema over the past three decades.

Author : Emanuel Levy
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814752890

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Cinema of Outsiders by Emanuel Levy Pdf

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The most important development in American culture of the last two decades is the emergence of independent cinema as a viable alternative to Hollywood. Indeed, while Hollywood's studios devote much of their time and energy to churning out big-budget, star-studded event movies, a renegade independent cinema that challenges mainstream fare continues to flourish with strong critical support and loyal audiences. Cinema of Outsiders is the first and only comprehensive chronicle of contemporary independent movies from the late 1970s up to the present. From the hip, audacious early works of maverick David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, and Spike Lee, to the contemporary Oscar-winning success of indie dynamos, such as the Coen brothers (Fargo), Quentin Tarentino (Pulp Fiction), and Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade), Levy describes in a lucid and accessible manner the innovation and diversity of American indies in theme, sensibility, and style. Documenting the socio-economic, political and artistic forces that led to the rise of American independent film, Cinema of Outsiders depicts the pivotal role of indie guru Robert Redford and his Sundance Film Festival in creating a showcase for indies, the function of film schools in supplying talent, and the continuous tension between indies and Hollywood as two distinct industries with their own structure, finance, talent and audience. Levy describes the major cycles in the indie film movement: regional cinema, the New York school of film, African-American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and movies made by women. Based on exhaustive research of over 1,000 movies made between 1977 and 1999, Levy evaluates some 200 quintessential indies, including Choose Me, Stranger Than Paradise, Blood Simple, Blue Velvet, Desperately Seeking Susan, Slacker, Poison, Reservoir Dogs, Gas Food Lodging, Menace II Society, Clerks, In the Company of Men, Chasing Amy, The Apostle, The Opposite of Sex, and Happiness. Cinema of Outsiders reveals the artistic and political impact of bold and provocative independent movies in displaying the cinema of "outsiders"-the cinema of the "other America."

Author : Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350115637

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The City in American Cinema by Johan Andersson,Lawrence Webb Pdf

How has American cinema engaged with the rapid transformation of cities and urban culture since the 1960s? And what role have films and film industries played in shaping and mediating the “postindustrial” city? This collection argues that cinema and cities have become increasingly intertwined in the era of neoliberalism, urban branding, and accelerated gentrification. Examining a wide range of films from Hollywood blockbusters to indie cinema, it considers the complex, evolving relationship between moving image cultures and the spaces, policies, and politics of US cities from New York, Los Angeles, and Boston to Detroit, Oakland, and Baltimore. The contributors address questions of narrative, genre, and style alongside the urban contexts of production, exhibition, and reception, discussing films including The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), Cruising (1980), Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), King of New York (1990), Inception (2010), Frances Ha (2012), Fruitvale Station (2013), Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), and Doctor Strange (2016).

Author : Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783476036865

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Film – An International Bibliography by Malte Hagener,Michael Töteberg Pdf

Kommentierte Bibliografie. Sie gibt Wissenschaftlern, Studierenden und Journalisten zuverlässig Auskunft über rund 6000 internationale Veröffentlichungen zum Thema Film und Medien. Die vorgestellten Rubriken reichen von Nachschlagewerk über Filmgeschichte bis hin zu Fernsehen, Video, Multimedia.

Author : Susan Hayward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317214793

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Cinema Studies by Susan Hayward Pdf

Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts is essential reading for anyone interested in film. Providing accessible coverage of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, theories and production terms, this is a must-have guide to a fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times. Now fully revised and updated for its fifth edition, the book includes entries on topics such as: Acting Audience CGI Convergence Cult cinema Digitisation and globalization Distribution Experimental film Transnational cinema World cinemas

Author : Anna Backman Rogers
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474403405

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American Independent Cinema by Anna Backman Rogers Pdf

Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie to the western, American independent films deal in images of crisis, transition and metamorphosis, offering a subversive engagement with more traditional modes of representation.a Examining films by Gus Van Sant, Jim Jarmusch and Sofia Coppola to highlight their use of cinematic time as a mode of philosophical thought, this book brings new and exciting perspectives to American independent cinema.

Author : Victoria Ruetalo,Dolores Tierney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781135848774

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Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America by Victoria Ruetalo,Dolores Tierney Pdf

Author : David James
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520938194

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The Most Typical Avant-Garde by David James Pdf

Los Angeles has nourished a dazzling array of independent cinemas: avant-garde and art cinema, ethnic and industrial films, pornography, documentaries, and many other far-flung corners of film culture. This glorious panoramic history of film production outside the commercial studio system reconfigures Los Angeles, rather than New York, as the true center of avant-garde cinema in the United States. As he brilliantly delineates the cultural perimeter of the film business from the earliest days of cinema to the contemporary scene, David James argues that avant-garde and minority filmmaking in Los Angeles has in fact been the prototypical attempt to create emancipatory and progressive culture. Drawing from urban history and geography, local news reporting, and a wide range of film criticism, James gives astute analyzes of scores of films—many of which are to found only in archives. He also looks at some of the most innovative moments in Hollywood, revealing the full extent of the cross-fertilization the occurred between the studio system and films created outside it. Throughout, he demonstrates that Los Angeles has been in the aesthetic and social vanguard in all cinematic periods—from the Socialist cinemas of the early teens and 1930s; to the personal cinemas of psychic self-investigation in the 1940s; to attempts in the 1960s to revitalize the industry with the counterculture’s utopian visions; and to the 1970s, when African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, women, gays, and lesbians worked to create cinemas of their own. James takes us up to the 1990s and beyond to explore new forms of art cinema that are now transforming the representation of Southern California’s geography.