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Rewriting Indie Cinema : Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay / J. J. Murphy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and Culture SeriesPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : 42 b&w film stillsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231191975
  • 9780231549592
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.U6 M79 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. ACROSS THE SPECTRUM: FROM IMPROVISATION TO PSYCHODRAMA -- 1. AND I HATE ACTORS: THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA -- 2. LET'S NOT PHONY IT UP ANYMORE: THE FILMS OF JOHN CASSAVETES -- 3. PLACE-BASED REALISM: MACKENZIE, LODEN, AND BURNETT -- 4. EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHODRAMA: MEKAS, WARHOL, CLARKE, AND MAILER -- 5. HUMAN LIFE ISN'T NECESSARILY WELL-WRITTEN: WILLIAM GREAVES'S SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE AND TAKE 2½ -- 6. BEYOND THE METHOD: ABEL FERRARA AND HARVEY KEITEL -- 7. TIED TO A MACHINE: THE FILMS OF GUS VAN SANT -- 8. I LIKE HOW YOU TALK: THE FILMS OF JOE SWANBERG -- 9. IMPROVISATION AND PLACE: PUTTY HILL, STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, AND THE FILMS OF SEAN BAKER -- 10. REDISCOVERING PSYCHODRAMA: FROWNLAND, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, AND STINKING HEAVEN -- 11. THE LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND STAGING: ACTOR MARTINEZ, ACTRESS, AND THE WITNESS -- CONCLUSION: BLENDING FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance.In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these 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. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practices.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. ACROSS THE SPECTRUM: FROM IMPROVISATION TO PSYCHODRAMA -- 1. AND I HATE ACTORS: THE NEW AMERICAN CINEMA -- 2. LET'S NOT PHONY IT UP ANYMORE: THE FILMS OF JOHN CASSAVETES -- 3. PLACE-BASED REALISM: MACKENZIE, LODEN, AND BURNETT -- 4. EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHODRAMA: MEKAS, WARHOL, CLARKE, AND MAILER -- 5. HUMAN LIFE ISN'T NECESSARILY WELL-WRITTEN: WILLIAM GREAVES'S SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE AND TAKE 2½ -- 6. BEYOND THE METHOD: ABEL FERRARA AND HARVEY KEITEL -- 7. TIED TO A MACHINE: THE FILMS OF GUS VAN SANT -- 8. I LIKE HOW YOU TALK: THE FILMS OF JOE SWANBERG -- 9. IMPROVISATION AND PLACE: PUTTY HILL, STAND CLEAR OF THE CLOSING DOORS, AND THE FILMS OF SEAN BAKER -- 10. REDISCOVERING PSYCHODRAMA: FROWNLAND, HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, AND STINKING HEAVEN -- 11. THE LINE BETWEEN REALITY AND STAGING: ACTOR MARTINEZ, ACTRESS, AND THE WITNESS -- CONCLUSION: BLENDING FICTION AND DOCUMENTARY -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional screenplay. Instead, they have turned to new approaches to scripting that allow for more complex characterization and shift the emphasis from the page to performance.In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores these 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. Murphy begins in the 1950s and 1960s with John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, Barbara Loden, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, William Greaves, and other independent directors who sought to create a new type of narrative cinema. In the twenty-first century, filmmakers such as Gus Van Sant, the Safdie brothers, Joe Swanberg, and Sean Baker developed similar strategies, sometimes benefitting from the freedom of digital technology. In reading key films and analyzing their techniques, Rewriting Indie Cinema demonstrates how divergence from the script has blurred the divide between fiction and nonfiction. Showing the ways in which filmmakers have striven to capture the subtleties of everyday behavior, Murphy provides a new history of American indie filmmaking and how it challenges Hollywood industrial practices.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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