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From: Video Age International | Date: June 1, 1996 | Copyright information

SPIKE MIKE SLACKERS & DYKES

A GUIDED TOUR ACROSS A DECADE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENT CINEMA

JOHN PIERSON

John Pierson, the author of Spike, Mike, Slackers & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema (Hyperion, 371 pp.), asserts that the world of independent film operates in 10-year cycles. He believes that the last cycle began with the 1984 release of director Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, a no-frills production that made other filmmakers realize that great work could be done on a low budget. The decade progressed with sex, lies, and videotape ...

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