Indie 2.0: Change and Continuity in Contemporary American Indie Film - Couverture souple

Indie 2.0 offers a valuable combination of close critical analyses of several key works, discussions of film production and distribution practices, and considerations of critical and cultural reception. Geoff King weaves these different kinds of commentary together into a convincing and timely study on the renewal of indie cinema that draws on many of the historically rooted conventions and appeals of alternative film practice in the twentieth century. --Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture

What is the state of American indie cinema in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Some have forecast an end to the viability of an indie sector marked by the appearance of films with ambitions significantly beyond those of the commercial mainstream. But, as this book demonstrates, plenty of distinctively indie productions continue to thrive, even in the face of difficult economic circumstances.