Dogville vs. Hollywood

Interpreting Lars von Trier's Dogville as a comment on the Hollywood film industry and the moviegoing process, Jake Horsley discusses the age-old conflict between 'artistic' and 'commercial' movie-making. He proposes that the term 'independent', when applied to film-making, refer to sensibility and vision rather than simply backing or funds.Can an 'independent' film achieve commercial success in Hollywood and still be called independent? Charting the history of independent cinema from early pioneers Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, John Cassavetes, and Francis Ford Coppola, through to modern practitioners such as David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, Quentin Tarantino and Charlie Kaufman, this book provides a much-needed critical analysis of the state of the art of today's film industry.