Prerequiste: C190.  Recommended: C290 and C 291.
This course is offered for Intensive Writing credit.

American Independent cinema has a long history.  In this class, we’ll
start with the Indie film’s roots in Exploitation and Avant-garde
film, and then move on to consider New American directors like John
Cassavetes and Shirley Clarke, Direct Cinema filmmakers like D.A.
Pennebaker, the rise of Sundance punk and transgressive cinema,
auteur tv (“Twin Peaks”) and the advent of digital video. Since the
class is being offered for intensive writing credit, the written work
for the class will be—well—intense.  There will be two short papers
and one ten-page paper that will be revised. In addition, there’ll be
a midterm, a final exam and a group oral presentation.

Films by Beth B. John Cassavetes, Shirley Clarke, David Lynch, Steven
Soderbergh, Todd Verow, Nick Zedd and others.  For a complete list,
check the course page on Oncourse.

Required reading:
Emanuel Levy,  CINEMA OF OUTSIDERS (NYU Press)
Jim Hillier, ed, AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA (British Film Institute)
Xeroxed packet of readings.