Independent Growth
Independent film is generally associated with creativity and originality, the auteur theory (the concept of the director as author), and lower budgets. However, these characteristics are not inherently founded in American cinema. The writers of the French film journal Cahiers du Cinema, many of whom are credited with leading the French New Wave, actually pioneered the filmmaking methods that would dominate The American Independents from the 1960’s on. In his book Celluloid Mavericks, Greg Merritt points out the effect the French New Wave had on American cinema. “The French New Wave impacted American independent films through such techniques as improved dialogue, handheld camerawork, and deliberately rough editing, but its more important legacy was to put into practice the philosophy of “Do your own thing”” (Merritt, 155). This freedom in filmmaking is what directors to this day strive for; it is the fundamental reason that cinema continues to evolve so that new stories can be told in different ways. Among the writers for Cahiers du Cinema were Francois Truffaut, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Goddard, Eric Rohmer, and Andre Bazin. Throughout the sixties the Cahiers writers redefined film theory. They attacked traditi
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