Introduction Part 1 Introduction Chapter 1 Independent of What? Sorting out differences from Hollywood, Janet Staiger Chapter 2 'Independent', 'Indie' and 'Indiewood': towards a periodisation of contemporary (post-1980) American independent cinema, Yannis Tzioumakis Chapter 3 Thriving or in Permanent Crisis? Discourses on the state of indie cinema, Geoff King Chapter 4 Quirky: buzzword or sensibility?, James MacDowell Part 2 Introduction Chapter 5 Movies for Hipsters, Michael Z. Newman Chapter 6 Discerning Independents: Steven Soderbergh and transhistorical taste cultures, Mark Gallagher Chapter 7 Their Own Personal Velocity: women directors and contemporary independent cinema, Michele Schreiber Chapter 8 Last Indie Standing: the special case of Lions Gate in the new millennium, Alisa Perren Part 3 Introduction Chapter 9 Conglomerate Hollywood and American Independent Film, Thomas Schatz Chapter 10 Reputational capital, creative conflict and Hollywood independence: the case of Hal Ashby, Philip Drake Chapter 11 The Limits of Autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood and independent filmmaking, 1950-53, Peter Krämer Chapter 12 Independent nature: wildlife films between Hollywood and indiewood, Claire Molloy Part 4 Introduction Chapter 13 In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: Independent Christian Filmmaking, James Russell Chapter 14 Welcome to the (neo) grindhouse! Sex, violence and the indie film, Sarah Wharton Chapter 15 Faux Real? C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America as the response to The Birth of a Nation, Novotny Lawrence Chapter 16 Measuring Online Word-of-Mouth: The Initial Reception of Inland Empire (2006) on the Web, Warren Buckland
