ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater /

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

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, ide...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (246 p.) :; 15 B/W illustrations 15 B&W images
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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

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