ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater / / ed. by Kim Wilkins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• MitwirkendeR: Boom, Jeroen,; Deleyto, Celestino,; Erickson, Mary P.,; Harrod, Mary,; Holliday, Christopher,; Isaacs, Bruce,; Moss-Wellington, Wyatt,; Parkinson, Claire,; Shary, Timothy,; Stone, Rob,; Vermeulen, Timotheus,; Wilkins, Kim,
• HerausgeberIn: Wilkins, Kim,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: ReFocus: The American Directors Series : RFADS
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations 15 B&W images

The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard LinklaterAnalyses both Linklater’s celebrated and understudied work in dialogue with ongoing debates in film studiesConsiders the impact of Linklater’s oeuvre in industrial and cultural contexts, with a focus on gender, identity politics, American politics, and animal rightsConnects Linklater to relevant American political and cultural events and institutionsRichard 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.ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater 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.

Table of 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