![]() A list of the best of these movies reveals the exclusions and suppressions that many of the prime artistic voices of filmmaking endured in the era of studio hegemony, and not just in the United States. ![]() Instead of embodying the mainstream, twentieth-century independent filmmaking formed a crucial alternative to it-a virtual counter-history of cinema. ![]() (The studios have been squeezed between the popularity of prestige TV and the international profitability of franchise films.) In the twentieth century, the production of independent films was no less varied or artistically accomplished, although many of the best of them went largely unseen. It has largely taken over for Hollywood studios in producing the kinds of realistic dramas and comedies that were long the core of studio fare. Independent filmmaking has been especially prominent in the twenty-first century because it has become the new mainstream. ![]()
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