American Independent Cinema

Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Anna Backman Rogers, University of Gothenburg) Backman Rogers, Anna (Senior Lecturer in Film Studies

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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.　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.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-06-19
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
Antal sidor184
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9780748693603

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Adolescence: Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Virgin Suicides’ (1999); Adolescence: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Elephant’ (2003); Chapter Two: Death: Jim Jarmusch’s ‘Dead Man’ (1994); Death: Gus Van Sant’s ‘Last Days’ (2004); Chapter Three: Life-Crisis: Sofia Coppola’s ‘Somewhere’ (2011); Broken Flowers (2005); Conclusion: The Crisis-Image –Mumblecore and Beyond; Bibliography; Filmography; Index

American Independent Cinema offers a welcome original take on US indie films. The first book-length study to engage with this most popular of forms using Deleuze, it provides a refreshing political engagement with the aesthetics of US indies. Backman Rogers’ deft argument insightfully illuminates how US indie’s manifold bodies in crisis (for example, consider Bill Murray’s ubiquitous deadpan lethargic characters) produce a "radical or cerebral critique" of neoliberal USA. A sophisticated scholarly endeavour, the engaging prose enables Deleuze’s complex ideas to be realised in the most lucid way, and in relation to some of the most important films of recent decades: from Dead Man through Elephant and Broken Flowers to Somewhere.