A Companion to American Indie Film

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<i>A Companion to American Indie Film</i>features a comprehensive collection of newly commissioned essays that represent a state-of-the-art resource for understanding key aspects of the field of indie films produced in the United States.<br /><br /><ul><li>Takes a comprehensive and fresh new look at the topic of American indie film</li><li>Features newly commissioned essays from top film experts and emerging scholars that represent the state-of-the-art reference to the indie film field</li><li>Topics covered include: indie film culture; key historical moments and movements in indie film history; relationships between indie film and other indie media; and issues including class, gender, regional identity and stardom in in the indie field</li><li>Includes studies of many types of indie films and film genres, along with various filmmakers and performers that have come to define the field</li></ul>

Autorenportrait

<b>Geoff King</b> is Professor of Film Studies at Brunel University London, UK. He is the author of numerous books on American film topics, including<i>American Independent Cinema</i> (2005),<i>Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema</i> (2009),<i>Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film</i>(2014) and<i>Quality Hollywood: Markers of Distinction in Contemporary Studio Film</i> (2016).

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