Murphy Rewriting Indie Cinema

Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54959-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

In Rewriting Indie Cinema, J. J. Murphy explores alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer’s own life experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, J. J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmdrehbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction. Across the Spectrum: From Improvisation to Psychodrama
1. And I Hate Actors: The New American Cinema
2. Let’s Not Phony It Up Anymore: The Films of John Cassavetes
3. Place-Based Realism: Mackenzie, Loden, and Burnett
4. Experiments in Psychodrama: Mekas, Warhol, Clarke, and Mailer
5. Human Life Isn’t Necessarily Well-Written: William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One and Take 2 1/2
6. Beyond the Method: Abel Ferrara and Harvey Keitel
7. Tied to a Machine: The Films of Gus Van Sant
8. I Like How You Talk: The Films of Joe Swanberg
9. Improvisation and Place: Putty Hill, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, and the Films of Sean Baker
10. Rediscovering Psychodrama: Frownland, Heaven Knows What, and Stinking Heaven
11. The Line Between Reality and Staging: Actor Martinez, Actress, and The Witness
Conclusion: Blending Fiction and Documentary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

J. J. Murphy is professor of film and Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author of Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work (2007) and The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (2012).