Week of January 26, 2009

News Item: The movie awards season is well underway in Hollywood with the Oscars traditionally serving as the culminating event. One day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its 81st Best Picture statue in February, the industry will celebrate the best in independent cinema at the 24th Annual Spirit Awards. (Traditionally, American independent – or “indie” – films were usually produced outside of the mammoth Hollywood studio system.) Listed here are books related to independent cinema.

Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented American Independent Film
By Marshall Fine. Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2005
Call Number: PN1998.3 .C384 F56 2005

Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor
By Scott MacDonald. UC Press, 2008
Call Number: PN1999 .C335 M33 2008

Cinema and Culture: Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001
By E. Deidre Pribram. Lang, 2002
Call Number: PN2993.5 .U6 P75 2002

Cinema of Outsiders: The Rise of American Independent Film
By Emanuel Levy. NYU Press, 1999
Call Number: PN1995.9 .E96 L43 1999

Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream
Edited by Chris Holmlund and Justin Wyatt. Routledge, 2005
Call Number: PN1993.5 .U6 C636 2005

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
By Peter Biskind. Simon & Schuster, 2004
Call Number: PN1999 .M57 B57 2004

Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How   Independent Screenplays Work
By J. J. Murphy. Continuum, 2007
Call Number: PN1996 .M84 2007