Post-Cinema Soderbergh

Gallagher, Mark

Abstract

© 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Independent artistic practice has always occurred in commercial and industrial environments characterized by unpredictability and change. The 2000s and 2010s saw television, online series, and niche home-video distribution emerge as viable alternatives or supplements to feature-filmmaking practice. For a view of independent practice in the mid-2010s, this chapter tracks the activities in screen media of one major filmmaker, Steven Soderbergh, and seeks to develop a profile of the self-distributing independent screen author. In the wake of his much-discussed "retirement" from feature filmmaking in 2013, Soderbergh maintained a degree of industry and public visibility in multiple forums. Soderbergh's uses of Twitter also indicated its indeterminate temporal status, like that of much internet content, as both archival and ephemeral. Soderbergh occupies a more diffuse position in online social-media and television ecosystems. Soderbergh's creative profile, and the ensuing range of creative artifacts he produces, thus spreads across media in ways similar to his filmmaking activity.

Citation

Gallagher, M. (2016). Post-Cinema Soderbergh. In G. King (Ed.), A Companion to American Indie Film (129-151). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118758359.ch6

• Online Publication Date: Oct 18, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 22, 2016
• Deposit Date: Oct 31, 2016
• Publisher: Wiley
• Pages: 129-151
• Book Title: A Companion to American Indie Film
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9781118758328
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118758359.ch6
• Keywords: filmmaking practice; independent artistic practice; internet media space; post-cinema Soderbergh; social media; television ecosystems
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1112763
• Publisher URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118758359.ch6