Rewriting indie cinema : improvisation, psychodrama, and the screenplay / J. J. Murphy.
"J.J. Murphy analyzes the shifting role of the screenplay in the history of modern American independent cinema. He argues that in moving away from the traditional Hollywood approach of using a script developed in pre-production, key independent filmmakers used psychodrama and improvisation to c...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Film and culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Across the spectrum: from improvisation to psychodrama
- And I hate actors: the new American cinema
- Let's not phony it up anymore: the films of John Cassavetes
- Place-based realism: Mackenzie, Loden, and Burnett
- Experiments in psychodrama: Mekas, Warhol, Clarke, and Mailer
- Human life isn't necessarily well-written: the films of William Greaves: symbiopsychotaxiplasm: take one and take 2 1/2
- Beyond the method: Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel
- Tied to a machine: the films of Gus Van Sant
- Like how you talk: the films of Joe Swanberg
- Improvisation and place: Putty Hill, Stand clear of the closing doors, and the films of Sean Baker
- Rediscovering psychodrama: Frownland, Heaven knows what, and Stinking heaven
- The line between reality and staging: Actor Martinez, Actress, and The witness
- Conclusion: blending fiction and documentary.