Rewriting Indie Cinema - Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay

Summary

In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences.

Product details

• Authors: J. J. Murphy, Murphy J. J.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2019
• EAN: 9780231191968
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19196-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Film and Culture Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; USA, Films, cinema, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Screenwriting, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production, philosophy; metaphysics; film