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This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.
List of contents
Part 1: Indie Film and Television: Historical Relationships 1. Indie (Film on) TV: A Tale of two very Close Friends 2. Same Word, Different Medium: The Evolution of Indie TV since the 2000s'
Part 2: Indie Film and Television: Industrial Continuities 3. (Re-)Branding Sundance: Entering the Indie TV Market 4. Packaging the 'Purest' form of Indie TV: Michael Sugar, Talent Management and Indie-Auteur Clients' 5. 'The Things That Keep Us Up at Night': Blumhouse Television and Indie Horror's Small Screen Dispersal
Part 3: Filmmakers Migration from Indie Film to TV (and back) 6. From
Brick to
Breaking Bad: 'Quality' Television Style, Authorship and 'Cinematic' Status 7. Mumblecore's Second Act: Millennial Indie Moviemaking's Migration to Television 8. Apocalyptic Visions and Commercial Constraints: Gregg Araki's Negotiation of Emerging Modes of Indie TV Auteurship
Part 4: Indie TV: Aesthetic and Institutional Trajectories 9. Prestige TV, Comedy, and the Indie Aesthetic 10. Netflix, Race and Cinephilia:
Master of None and Indie TV 11. 'It may Be Where the Future of Independent Production Is Happening': Netflix and Indie Aesthetics in
GLOW 12. Affect, Tabloid Reality TV and Indie Cinema
Part 5: Indie TV and Regional Sensibilities 13.
Fargo (2014-2020): Indie Cinema, Midwest Mobsters, and Indie TV 14. Gender, Family, and Therapeutic Regionalism in
One Mississippi Part 6: Indie TV and Alternative Practices 15. Indie TV in the Streaming Era 16. Web Series as Indie TV: Intersectional Identities and Intersecting Media 17. 'A Decade of Distinction': A&E IndieFilms and the Channelling of Documentary
About the author
James Lyons is Associate Professor in Screen Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author or co-editor of six books, including
Documentary, Performance and Risk (2020),
Miami Vice (2010) and
Quality Popular Television (2003).
Yannis Tzioumakis is Reader in Film and Media Industries at the University of Liverpool. He is the author and editor of eleven books, most recently
United Artists (2020). He also co-edits the Routledge Hollywood Centenary and the Cinema and Youth Cultures book series.
Summary
This edited collection is the first book to offer a wide-ranging examination of the interface between American independent film and a converged television landscape that consists of terrestrial broadcasters, cable networks and streaming providers, in which independent film and television intersect in complex, multifaceted and creative ways.
