Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Linda Badley, Claire Perkins and Michele Schreiber
Part 1: Production and Distribution Contexts
1: Women Make Movies: Gamechanger Films, Chicken and Egg Pictures and the Future of Female Independent Filmmaking, Sarah Sinwell
2: Killer Feminism, Patricia White
3: 'A Woman with an Endgame': Megan Ellison, Annapurna Pictures, and American Independent Film Production, James Lyons
4: That's My Story and I'm Sticking to It: Pioneering Practices in the Frontier of Micro-budget Filmmaking, Christina Lane
5: 'I'm Absolutely the Right Person for this Job': Allison Anders and Mary Harron on Lifetime Television, Michele Schreiber
Part II: Genres and Modalities
1: Gender, Genre and More General Indie Dimensions in Megan Griffiths' The Off Hours and Eden, Geoff King
2: Down to the Bone: Neo-neorealism and Genre in Contemporary Women's Indies, Linda Badley
3: My Effortless Brilliance: Women's Mumblecore, Claire Perkins
4: Black Women, Romance, and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Saana Hamri, Shelley Cobb
Part III: Identities
1: From Documentary to Fictional Realism: Mira Nair's Documentary Roots, Fictional Home, and Production Politics, Sarah Projansky and Kent Ono
2: Having Its Cake and Eating It Too: Contemporary American 'Indie' cinema and My Big Fat Greek Wedding Reframed, Yannis Tzioumakis and Lydia Papadimitriou
3: Not Just Indie: A Look at Films by Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay and Kasi Lemmons, Cynthia Baron
4: Sexual In-betweener/Industry In-betweener: The Career and Films of Lisa Cholodenko, Maria San Filippo
5: Miranda July and the New 21st Century Indie, Kathleen McHugh
Part IV: Collaborations
1: Mutual Muses in American Independent Film: Nicole Holofcener and Catherine Keener, Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams, Chris Holmlund
2: The Feminist Politics of Collaboration in Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, Corinn Columpar
3: The Director as Facilitator: Collaboration, Cooperation, and the Gender Politics of the Set, John Alberti
4: Beyond the Screen: On Contemporary Feminist Media Re-Articulations, Claudia Costa Pederson and Patricia R. Zimmermann
