Geoff King is Professor of Film and TV Studies at Brunel University and author of books including American Independent Cinema; Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema; New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction, and Spectacular Naratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster, all published by I.B.Tauris.

'Indie 2.0 offers a valuable combination of close critical analyses of several key works, discussions of film production and distribution practices, and considerations of critical and cultural reception. Geoff King weaves these different kinds of commentary together into a convincing and timely study on the renewal of indie cinema that draws on many of the historically rooted conventions and appeals of alternative film practice in the twentieth century.' Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Discourses on the state of indie film1. Quirky by design? Irony vs. sincerity in Little Miss Sunshine and Juno2. Industry 2.0: The digital domain and beyond3. Mumblecore4. Social realism and art cinema: The films of Kelly Reichardt and RaminBahrani5. The desktop aesthetic: First-person expressive in Tarnation and Four EyedMonstersConclusion: Indie lives!NotesSelect bibliographyIndex

Geoff King is Professor of Film and TV Studies at Brunel University and author of books including American Independent Cinema; Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema; New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction, and Spectacular Naratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster, all published by I.B.Tauris.

'Indie 2.0 offers a valuable combination of close critical analyses of several key works, discussions of film production and distribution practices, and considerations of critical and cultural reception. Geoff King weaves these different kinds of commentary together into a convincing and timely study on the renewal of indie cinema that draws on many of the historically rooted conventions and appeals of alternative film practice in the twentieth century.' Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Discourses on the state of indie film1. Quirky by design? Irony vs. sincerity in Little Miss Sunshine and Juno2. Industry 2.0: The digital domain and beyond3. Mumblecore4. Social realism and art cinema: The films of Kelly Reichardt and RaminBahrani5. The desktop aesthetic: First-person expressive in Tarnation and Four EyedMonstersConclusion: Indie lives!NotesSelect bibliographyIndex

Geoff King is Professor of Film and TV Studies at Brunel University and author of books including American Independent Cinema; Indiewood, USA: Where Hollywood Meets Independent Cinema; New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction, and Spectacular Naratives: Hollywood in the Age of the Blockbuster, all published by I.B.Tauris.

'Indie 2.0 offers a valuable combination of close critical analyses of several key works, discussions of film production and distribution practices, and considerations of critical and cultural reception. Geoff King weaves these different kinds of commentary together into a convincing and timely study on the renewal of indie cinema that draws on many of the historically rooted conventions and appeals of alternative film practice in the twentieth century.' Michael Z. Newman, author of Indie: An American Film Culture

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Discourses on the state of indie film1. Quirky by design? Irony vs. sincerity in Little Miss Sunshine and Juno2. Industry 2.0: The digital domain and beyond3. Mumblecore4. Social realism and art cinema: The films of Kelly Reichardt and RaminBahrani5. The desktop aesthetic: First-person expressive in Tarnation and Four EyedMonstersConclusion: Indie lives!NotesSelect bibliographyIndex