IMAGES OF AMERICA HISTORIC HOTELS OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD

Others are more avowedly ‘political’ or polemical in intent. The ‘artistic’ and the ‘political’ are far from separate categories, however. Formal experiment and departure from dominant conventions is, potentially, a major resource for the deconstruction of dominant ideologies. Other examples of American independent cinema are less lofty in their ambitions, taking up the inheritance of lower-budget ‘exploitation’ cinema, for example, or seeking to carve a niche through the creation of ‘quality’, stylish, cultish or offbeat films, the primary goal of which remains the provision of profit-generating entertainment....