Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One -- Genesis: Modern American Independent Cinema and its Position within an Industry of Mass Production; Chapter Two -- Ancestry of Independence: Easy Rider and the Declaration of a New American Cinema; Chapter Three -- The Art of the Possible: Hollywood Feature Film Production since 1970; Chapter Four -- Oppositional Fantasies: The Economic Structure of American Independent Cinema and its Essential Lineaments
Summary
"American Independent" cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. This title questions the supposed autonomy of this cinema and asks if independent film can possibly survive in the face of the mass-production and profit of Hollywood
