Independent Filmmaking Around the Globe
Published on 13. April 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-4426-2683-6 (ISBN)
Description
Independent Filmmaking around the Globe calls attention to the significant changes taking place in independent cinema today, as new production and distribution technology and shifting social dynamics make it more and more possible for independent filmmakers to produce films outside both the mainstream global film industry and their own national film systems. Identifying and analyzing the many complex forces that shape the production and distribution of feature films, the authors detail how independent filmmakers create work that reflects independent voices and challenges political, economic, and cultural constraints.
With chapters on the under-explored cinemas of Greece, Turkey, Iraq, China, Malaysia, Peru, and West Africa, as well as traditional production centres such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time.
With chapters on the under-explored cinemas of Greece, Turkey, Iraq, China, Malaysia, Peru, and West Africa, as well as traditional production centres such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, Independent Filmmaking around the Globe explores how contemporary independent filmmaking increasingly defines the global cinema of our time.
Reviews / Votes
'Independent Filmmaking is an indispensable resource, and it would also be an excellent text for a survey of new international cinema.... Highly recommended.'- W. W. Dixon (Choice Magazine vol 53:01:2015) 'It is not only one of my favourite film studies readings for the year 2015, but a very helpful and fundamental anthology to assist teaching courses of related topics.'
- Luis Rocha Antunes (Limina: A Journal of Historical & Cultural Studies vol 21:02:2016)
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
14 b&w illustrations, 6 b&w tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-2683-6 (9781442626836)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Doris Baltruschat is a research fellow and instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film and the Centre for Cinema Studies at the University of British Columbia. A former juror for the Canadian Independent Film and Video Fund, she has extensive professional experience in the film and television sectors.
Mary P. Erickson teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She has worked as a publicist for the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, a nonprofit film arts organization, as well as on several independent films.
Mary P. Erickson teaches in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She has worked as a publicist for the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, a nonprofit film arts organization, as well as on several independent films.
Content
Foreword. Producing Independently in a Global Industry (David Hamilton)
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Meaning of Independence: Concepts, Contexts and Interpretations
Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson
Part I: Independent Film vis A vis the Local and Global Mainstream
Chapter 2. An Increasingly Global Presence: Contemporary American Independent Cinema Outside the US
Yannis Tzioumakis
Chapter 3. European Union Initiatives for Independent Filmmakers Across Europe
Teresa Hoefert de TurEgano
Chapter 4. Dependency and Independence in British Independent Film
Erik Knudsen
Chapter 5. From Aussiewood Movies to Guerilla Filmmaking: Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary Australian Cinema
Mark Ryan
Chapter 6. Independent Filmmaking in the Peruvian Context: Seeking Meaning
Gabriela MartInez
Part II: The Meaning of Independence in Regions of Conflict and Change
Chapter 7. In the Shadow of the Studios, the State and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece
Lydia Papadimitriou
Chapter 8. Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political Radicalism
Murat Akser
Chapter 9. Filmmaking in Iraq: A Rebirth
Mary P. Erickson
Chapter 10. The Grassroots Perspective: Sixth Generation Cinema and Independent Filmmaking in China
Hongwei Lu
Chapter 11. Independent Filmmaking in Africa: New Voices and Challenges
Martin Mhando
Part III: Digital Media and the Independent Voice
Chapter 12. Syiok Sendiri?: Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia
Gaik Cheng Khoo
Chapter 13. Independent Filmmaking in the Canadian Arctic
Doris Baltruschat
Chapter 14. Digital Video Films as "Independent" African Cinema
Sheila Petty
Glossary
Filmography
List of Contributors
Bibliography
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Meaning of Independence: Concepts, Contexts and Interpretations
Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson
Part I: Independent Film vis A vis the Local and Global Mainstream
Chapter 2. An Increasingly Global Presence: Contemporary American Independent Cinema Outside the US
Yannis Tzioumakis
Chapter 3. European Union Initiatives for Independent Filmmakers Across Europe
Teresa Hoefert de TurEgano
Chapter 4. Dependency and Independence in British Independent Film
Erik Knudsen
Chapter 5. From Aussiewood Movies to Guerilla Filmmaking: Independent Filmmaking and Contemporary Australian Cinema
Mark Ryan
Chapter 6. Independent Filmmaking in the Peruvian Context: Seeking Meaning
Gabriela MartInez
Part II: The Meaning of Independence in Regions of Conflict and Change
Chapter 7. In the Shadow of the Studios, the State and the Multiplexes: Independent Filmmaking in Greece
Lydia Papadimitriou
Chapter 8. Turkish Independent Cinema: Between Bourgeois Auteurism and Political Radicalism
Murat Akser
Chapter 9. Filmmaking in Iraq: A Rebirth
Mary P. Erickson
Chapter 10. The Grassroots Perspective: Sixth Generation Cinema and Independent Filmmaking in China
Hongwei Lu
Chapter 11. Independent Filmmaking in Africa: New Voices and Challenges
Martin Mhando
Part III: Digital Media and the Independent Voice
Chapter 12. Syiok Sendiri?: Independent Filmmaking in Malaysia
Gaik Cheng Khoo
Chapter 13. Independent Filmmaking in the Canadian Arctic
Doris Baltruschat
Chapter 14. Digital Video Films as "Independent" African Cinema
Sheila Petty
Glossary
Filmography
List of Contributors
Bibliography