ReFocus
1st Edition
Published on 31. December 2022
256 pages
978-1-4744-9384-0 (ISBN)
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The first edited collection of critical essays on American filmmaker Richard Linklater
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Kim Wilkins | Timotheus Vermeulen
ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater
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12/2022
Edinburgh University Press
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Content
- Intro
- 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
