American Independent Cinema: Rites Of Passage And The Crisis Image (Edinburgh Studies In Film And Intermediality)

Anna Backman Rogers argues that American independent cinema is a cinema not merely in crisis, but also of crisis. As a cinema which often explores the rite of passage by explicitly drawing on American cinematic heritage, from the teen movie to the western, American independent films deal in images of crisis, transition and metamorphosis, offering a subversive engagement with more traditional modes of representation. -- Back cover.

• | Author: Anna Backman Rogers
• | Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 19, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 184 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0748693602
• | ISBN-13: 9780748693603