Title: Cinema and Culture: Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001 (review)
Abstract:Delimiting trends in film stands as a daunt- ing task for cinema scholars. Cinema theory is further complicated by its inextricability from film practice, yet scholars and filmmakers often do not ackn...Delimiting trends in film stands as a daunt- ing task for cinema scholars. Cinema theory is further complicated by its inextricability from film practice, yet scholars and filmmakers often do not acknowledge just how indebted they are to each other. Even less often do the two, theory and practice, coexist in a single artist. This is not to say that filmmakers do not utilize or ascribe to film theory as they create films. Furthermore, as the nouvelle vague and Dogme95 collectives attest to, there certainly are traditions of filmmaker theorists in cinema history. However, especially within the U.S. tradition, a separation is generally maintained between those who make films and those who write about them. In Cinema & Culture: Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001, E. Deidre Pribram positions U.S. independent cinema as a promising site for just such discourse. As an independent filmmaker, university instructor, and published scholar of film theory, she seems an ideal candidate to speak to these issues from multiple perspectives.Read More
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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