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dc.contributor.author | King, G | - |
dc.coverage.spatial | 12 | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-10-01T12:08:46Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-10-01T12:08:46Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2004 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Film Studies: An International Review. Issue 5 November 2004, 80-91 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/3669 | - |
dc.description.abstract | At the heart (literally) of 21 Grams (2003) is a concern about questions of identity; of measuring that which seems ineffable – the essence of life, or what makes us distinct, unique as individuals, or otherwise. My aim in this paper is to use the film to attempt a similar, if less lofty, enquiry into the current identity of American independent cinema, a sector that often seems equally resistant to being clearly or definitively pinned down and categorized. 21 Grams is a useful exemplar of a number of significant trends in the contemporary indie sector, including both its situation in the industrial landscape and its most distinctive formal qualities. Industrially, the film lies in a position poised between all-out independence and attachment to the empires of the Hollywood major studio-distribution operations. Formally, and in the intersection between form and content, it also occupies a something of a hybrid position: alternative in some dimensions, especially its narrative structure and the use of hyper-realistic visual textures, but also more familiar-conventional in others, including a storyline that might otherwise seem closer to the stuff of somewhat implausible melodrama. In each case, I suggest, this can be taken as representative of a significant proportion of the American independent sector more widely. | en |
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dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | Manchester University Press | en |
dc.title | Weighing up the qualities of independence: 21 grams in focus | en |
dc.type | Research Paper | en |
Appears in Collections: | Media Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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