Shoot It!: Hollywood Inc. and the Rising of Independent Film

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Revealing the history of how Hollywood, with its eye on the bottom line, arguably lost its ability to support the work of creative filmmakers, Shoot It! is a passionate portrait of the American independent film scene that has produced some of the best movies of the last two decades and inspired those in other countries to do the same. While the studios envisage a generic universe, repressing local film cultures along the way, talented independents continue to tell local stories with universal appeal. Shoot It! is a celebration of those determined filmmakers.

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An engaging, comprehensive history of the highs and lows of independent film. . . . The insight from numerous industry insiders, combined with Spaner's historical overview, proves that the history of independent film can be just as interesting as the films themselves. --MovieMaker magazine

There have been plenty of history books written about independent film, but few take the expansive, international view of journalist and critic David Spaner in his new book Shoot It! --Indie Wire

A sort of alt.history of the movies, David Spaner's book attempts to find a common ground of anti-American corporate resistance linking 1920s union organizers, blacklist victims of the 1950s, John Cassavetes, the French New Wave, New York punk bohemians, Method actors and international filmmakers. --The Globe and Mail

Author Bio

David Spaner: David Spaner has worked as a movie critic, feature writer, reporter, and editor for numerous newspapers and magazines. He is the author of Dreaming in the Rain: How Vancouver Became Hollywood North by Northwest. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.