American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

by Anna Backman Rogers

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.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748693602
• ISBN13: 9780748693603
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"