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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464292403321

Autore

Pierson John

Titolo

Spike, Mike, slackers & dykes : a guided tour across a decade of American independent cinema / / John Pierson ; with the conversational collaboration of Kevin Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , 2014

©1997

ISBN

0-292-76100-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

791.43/0233/092273 B

Soggetti

Motion picture producers and directors - United States

Independent filmmakers - United States

Low budget films

Motion pictures - Production and direction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes filmography and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Half-title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction: Stranger Than Fiction""; ""Dialogue / Leaders""; ""A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History""; ""Dialogue / Starting Point""; ""Stranger Than Paradise and the First Golden Age""; ""Dialogue / Paradise""; ""Parting Glances & The New Queer Cinema""; ""She's Gotta Have It""; ""Tube Socks and Tube Steaks""; ""Black and White""; ""Birth of a Salesman""; ""Dialogue / Be Like Spike""; ""Working Girls and Women""; ""Inspector Errol Morris Walks The Thin Blue Line""; ""D.O.A""; ""The Dance Part 1""

""Deceased""""Quantity Not Quality""; ""Dialogue / Batman and Sex""; ""1989: The Year It All Changed""; ""Dialogue / Sex and Roger""; ""Roger and Michael and Me""; ""The Cinderella Syndrome""; ""How to Make a Studio Deal""; ""The Morning After""; ""Dialogue / Role Models""; ""Slacking Off""; ""Dialogue / Straight Outta Business""; ""The Next Soderbergh""; ""Sundance 1990""; ""Sundance 1991""; ""Sundance 1992""; ""Dialogue / Dogs""; ""Sons of Mean Streets""; ""Dialogue / 26,685""; ""How Low Can a Budget Go?""; ""Dialogue / Shannen""



""Amongst Jerks: Rob Weiss and the Dark Side of Overnight Success""""Toll Money""; ""Hitchcock: Who Needs Him?""; ""Murder Ink""; ""The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994""; ""In Hock and Staying There""; ""Go Fiscal: Anatomy of a Back End""; ""A Doc In The House""; ""Dialogue / The Clerky Boys""; ""Epilogue: It's A Wonderful Life, July 4, 1995""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Appendix I""; ""Appendix II""; ""Appendix III""; ""Index""