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The legendary figure who launched the careers of Spike Lee, Michael Moore, and Richard Linklater offers a no-holds-barred look at the deals and details that propel an indie film from a dream to distribution.

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Author:   John Pierson
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9780292757684

ISBN 10:   0292757689
Pages:   392
Publication Date:   15 March 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Stranger Than Fiction Dialogue. Leaders A Quick and Slanted Pre-1984 History Dialogue. Starting Point Stranger Than Paradise and the First Golden Age Dialogue. Paradise Parting Glances & The New Queer Cinema She’s Gotta Have It Tube Socks and Tube Steaks Black and White Birth of a Salesman Dialogue. Be Like Spike Working Girls and Women Inspector Errol Morris Walks The Thin Blue Line D.O.A. The Dance Part 1 Deceased Quantity Not Quality Dialogue. Batman and Sex 1989: The Year It All Changed Dialogue. Sex and Roger Roger and Michael and Me The Cinderella Syndrome How to Make a Studio Deal The Morning After Dialogue. Role Models Slacking Off Dialogue. Straight Outta Business The Next Soderbergh Sundance 1990 Sundance 1991 Sundance 1992 Dialogue. Dogs Sons of Mean Streets Dialogue. $26,685 How Low Can a Budget Go? Dialogue. Shannen Amongst Jerks: Rob Weiss and the Dark Side of Overnight Success Toll Money Hitchcock: Who Needs Him? Murder Ink The Odd Couple: Sundance 1994 In Hock and Staying There Go Fiscal: Anatomy of a Back End A Doc In The House Dialogue. The Clerky Boys Epilogue: It’s A Wonderful Life, July 4, 1995 Acknowledgments Appendix I Appendix II Appendix III Index

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[I]f you've ever wondered what the indie film industry was really like back in the day, read this. - Austin Monthly Magazine Needless to add, Pierson is a player on virtually every page of Spike, a lively and highly personal account that begins by reminding readers of what was already thriving before 1989, the year indies broke big with Soderbergh's Sex, Lies, and Videotape. - Shepard Express

[I]f you've ever wondered what the indie film industry was really like back in the day, read this. - Austin Monthly Magazine

Author Information

John Pierson hunted down, represented, and, in some cases, financed over twenty first-time independent features by directors including Spike Lee, Michael Moore, Richard Linklater, and Kevin Smith. After writing this chronicle of that era, he created and hosted IFCtv's first original series Split Screen, a globe-trotting, magazine-format show by filmmakers for film aficionados, which eventually took him and his family to Fiji's remote 180 Meridian Cinema. When he returned, Pierson moved to Austin to teach in the University of Texas Department of Radio-Television-Film, where he’s interviewed over seventy notable industry guests in his RTF master class.

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