ReFocus : The Films of Richard Linklater / edited by Kim Wilkins and Timotheus Vermeulen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vermeulen, Timotheus, editor.

Wilkins, Kim, 1986- editor.

Series:

ReFocus, the American directors series.

ReFocus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linklater, Richard, 1960---Criticism and interpretation.

Linklater, Richard.

Motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from non-linear independent films to Hollywood genre entertainment. Despite the popularity of Linklater's rich and varied body of work - and perhaps also because of this generic diversity - he remains under-represented in critical and scholarly fora.<br><br><i>ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater</i> addresses this oversight, bringing together twelve original essays attending to Linklater as a filmmaker whose work engages with contemporary debates in American politics, gender, youth, and activism as well as significant concepts in film studies, including time and duration, rhythm, and movement. Together these essays form a dialogue on Linklater's ongoing role in contemporary American popular culture, and the impact his work has on discussions within (and beyond) film studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Linklater's Itinerant Oeuvre

Part 1 Auteur Cinema in Context

1 'I Think I Still Qualify as a Slacker . . . Just One that's Currently Lucky': The Myths of Slacker, Austin, and Richard Linklater

2 On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater's Fast Food Nation

3 The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater

4 On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater's Love for Lacunae

Part 2 Genre as Means

5 Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams

6 Boyhood: Linklater's Testament of American Youth after 9/11

7 The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater's Post-Boyhood Masculinities

8 Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight

Part 3 Style and Meaning

9 Empathetic Effort in Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Bernie

10 Richard Linklater's Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects, and SubUrbia

11 Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood

12 Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and Rhythmanalysis

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4744-9385-8

1-4744-9384-X

OCLC:

1371573735