Low-budget film (Cinema Hall-16)

Author: (USA) Peter Biskind
Translator: Yang Xiangrong
United States/USA
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book is a chronicle of the rise of American independent film directors and their two driving engines—Miramax and the Sundance Film Festival. Peter Biskind portrays the figures who propelled the independent film movement from the fringes to the Oscars. Among them, the founders of Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford, and Harvey Weinstein, along with his brother Bob, who transformed Miramax into a hub for independent cinema, stand out particularly. The author's sharp and incisive narrative is built on a wealth of vivid anecdotes, creating a tight and gripping writing style. In a sense, this book is a sequel to my earlier work, Easy Rider and The Angry Bull, revisiting the history of the 1970s. In this dazzling and vibrant decade, we witnessed the rise of the New Hollywood movement, spearheaded and participated in by those who had film school training. Influenced by drugs, European cinema, and the anti-war movement, they exhausted all the resources of the struggling studio system to produce what they believed were the finest films of the second half of the 20th century in America. The New Hollywood movement lasted only about a decade—or even less—and left behind a rich legacy. This movement was not a loose collection of spiritual and aesthetic inheritors, but rather a broad, albeit not strict, term for the phenomenon of independent production cinema.