Screening American Independent Film Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island, USA) 9781032160603

The first collection to provide close readings of individual films, written specifically to support film screenings. The essays are clearly written offering students a great model for their own writing about film.

This comprehensive collection covers independent film in America from 1915 to the present, and from Two Knights of Vaudeville (1915) to Nomadland (2021).

It will support a variety of classes, including American Independent Cinema, American Film and more general courses on American Studies and Film Studies.

The collection pays particular attention to issues of diversity and inclusion for both the participating scholars and the content and themes within the films selected. In addition, all of the films included here are accessible for classroom screenings and personal viewing through a variety of means including streaming services, YouTube, and/or physical media.

Justin Wyatt is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Film/Media, and Journalism at the University of Rhode Island. He is the author of The Virgin Suicides: Reverie, Sorrow and Young Love (Routledge) and the co-editor of Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream (Routledge). He is completing a manuscript on qualitative and quantitative market research methods in the media industries. He has published in the fields of media history, film marketing, and media industry studies.

Wyatt D. Phillips is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at Texas Tech University. His work primarily engages questions of the political economy of media production and circulation. His current book project considers the historical relationship between turn-of-the-century business culture and the significance of genre in early Hollywood. His publications include work on the economic structure and history of the American film industry, the rise of drive-in theaters, and Camp TV of the 1960s.