Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section 1 Independent; Chapter 1 United Artists Classics (1980 to 1986); Chapter 2 Triumph Films (1982 to 1985), Universal Classics (1982 to 1984) and Twentieth Century Fox International Classics (1982 to1985); Chapter 3 Orion Classics (1983 to 1997); Section II Indie; Chapter 4 Fine Line Features (1990 to 2005); Chapter 5 Sony Pictures Classics (1992 to date); Section III Indiewood; Chapter 6 Fox Searchlight (1994 to date); Chapter 7 Paramount Classics / Paramount Vantage (1997 to 2008); Chapter 8 Focus Features (2002 to date)
Summary
For over three decades the major Hollywood studios have operated specialty film divisions, companies that were originally established to focus primarily on the European arthouse film market, before moving on to the burgeoning American independent film market and in the process transforming it in fundamental ways. Hollywood?s Indies is the first book to offer an in depth examination of the phenomenon of the studio specialty film labels, by tracing their history since the establishment of the first such division in 1980, United Artists Classics. The book provides a detailed account of these divi
