Winters bone

- on location shooting in the ozarks
used real locations like the burnt out meth house
- local people were cast in supporting roles
- costumes sourced from real people
- independently produced
- quest narrative
- Ozark mountains in Missouri USA
-based on novel of same name by Daniel Woodrell
- directed by Granik through production company Anonymous Content
- film recieved half its 2 million dollar budget
- premiered at sundance in 2010
- gained distribution deal from Fortissimo Films
- made 6 million dollars at US box office

- Ree is both maternal and a key active character driving the quest narrative forwards.
- Ree takes kids to school and helps them study on the way but also investigates her fathers whereabouts herself
- film entirely from her perspective

Teardrop - appears as Rees saviour, domestic abuse to wife

- a revisitionst assessment of the - 'hillbilly' stereotype in rural communities
- key values of family loyalty
- dependency on patriarchal structures but reliance on women
- financial insecurity
- domestic abuse
- mental illness
- absence of authority + health care
- lack of opportunities in career and education

- expressive minimalistic aesthetic
- strange beauty and fascination for rural traditions shot at times as still images
- cuts between natural open observational images + a heightened

- audience positioned as outsiders

- spectatorship
- ideology

not a comparative piece