American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and the Crisis Image

"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." -- Back cover.

Author(s): Anna Backman Rogers
Publisher: Edinburgh Studies in Film
Published: 2015
Categories: Independent films