Sherry B Ortner Not Hollywood Hardcover sku-21562398

Sherry B Ortner's Not Hollywood: Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream is a hardcover listed under Performing Arts Books, SKU sku-21562398. Ortner draws on interviews with directors and producers to examine independent filmmaking in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s.

She discusses filmmakers' belief that their work tells the truth about American life, interprets films about family, the economy and politics in the neoliberal era, and argues that independent American cinema has served as cultural critique over the past three decades.