Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Notes on the Contributors

pp x-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-20

PART I - PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION CONTEXTS

pp 21-22

1 - Women Make Movies: Chicken & Egg Pictures, Gamechanger Films and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking

pp 23-35

2 - Killer Feminism

pp 36-53

3 - ‘A Woman with an Endgame’: Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures and American Independent Film Production

pp 54-69

4 - Susan Seidelman’s Contemporary Films: The Feminist Art of Selfreinvention in a Changing Technological Landscape

pp 70-86

5 - ‘I’m Absolutely the Right Person for this Job’: Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television

pp 87-104

PART II - GENRES AND MODALITIES

pp 105-106

6 - Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths’ The Off Hours and Eden

pp 107-120

7 - Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women’s Indies

pp 121-137

8 - My Effortless Brilliance: Women’s Mumblecore

pp 138-153

9 - Black Women, Romance and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Sanaa Hamri

pp 154-168

PART III - IDENTITIES

pp 169-170

10 - From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair’s Documentary Roots, Fictional Home and Production Politics

pp 171-187

11 - Having its Cake and Eating it Too: Contemporary American ‘Indie’ Cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed

pp 188-203

12 - Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons

pp 204-220

13 - Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko

pp 221-238

14 - Miranda July and the New Twenty-first-century Indie

pp 239-254

PART IV - COLLABORATIONS

pp 255-256

15 - Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Catherine Keener and Nicole Holofcener, Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt

pp 257-275

16 - The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture

pp 276-287

17 - The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation and the Gender Politics of the Set

pp 288-303

18 - Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-articulations

pp 304-318

Index

pp 319-329