Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay
ISBN: 9780231549592
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Independent films -- United States -- History and criticism; Motion picture plays American -- History and criticism;

In Rewriting Indie Cinema , J. J. Murphy explores alternative forms of scripting and how they have shaped American film from the 1950s to the present. He traces a strain of indie cinema that used improvisation and psychodrama, a therapeutic form of improvised acting based on a performer's own life experiences.

J. J. Murphy is professor of film and Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Me and You and Memento and Fargo : How Independent Screenplays Work (2007) and The Black Hole of the Camera: The Films of Andy Warhol (2012).

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