Hollywood's Indies

Yannis Tzioumakis is Reader in Film and Media Industries at the University of Liverpool. His research specialises in American independent cinema and the business of media entertainment. His books include American Independent Cinema: An Introduction (EUP, 2006), The Spanish Prisoner (EUP, 2009), and Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories Identities (Intellect, 2011). He is also the co-editor of "American Indies" (EUP), a 6-volume book series that examines key titles from the contemporary US independent film scene.

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. United Artists Classics (1980-1986); 2. Triumph Films, Universal Classics and Twentieth Century Fox International Classics; 3. Orion Classics (1983-1997); 4. Fine Line Features (1990-2005); 5. Sony Pictures Classics (1992 - ); 6. Fox Searchlight (1994 - ); 7. Paramount Classics/Paramount Vantage (1997-2008); 8. Focus Features (2002 - ); 9. Warner Independent Pictures (2003-2008) and Picturehouse (2005-8); Index.

Hollywood’s Indies is a major advance in our understanding of the art, commerce and industry of American independent cinema. From his ground-breaking survey of the studios’ 'classics' divisions of the 1980s, to his in-depth analysis of Sony Classics, Fox Searchlight, and the other indie divisions in the 1990s and 2000s, Tzioumakis provides an invaluable, endlessly insightful history of independent film in the age of Conglomerate Hollywood. Moving deftly from the big picture to the tight, carefully composed close-up, Hollywood Indies examines the industry at large and also the inner workings of the companies – and the films – that defined the American indie film movement.