Sherry B. Ortner's Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the PDF

By Sherry B. Ortner

ISBN-10: 0822354268

ISBN-13: 9780822354260

The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic services with severe movie interpretation to discover the autonomous movie scene in long island and la because the overdue Nineteen Eighties. Not Hollywood is either a examine of the lived event of that scene and a serious exam of the USA as obvious in the course of the lenses of autonomous filmmakers. according to interviews with ratings of administrators and manufacturers, Ortner unearths the tradition and practices of indie filmmaking, together with the conviction of these concerned that their motion pictures, not like Hollywood video clips, are "telling the reality" approximately American existence. those motion pictures frequently remove darkness from the darkish part of yankee society via narratives in regards to the relatives, the financial system, and politics in present day neoliberal period. providing insightful interpretations of lots of those motion pictures, Ortner argues that in the prior 3 many years self sufficient American cinema has functioned as an essential type of cultural critique.

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