ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Kim Wilkins, Timotheus Vermeulen, University of Oslo) Wilkins, Kim (Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures, University of Oslo) Vermeulen, Timotheus (Professor of Media, Culture and Society

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-12-13
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt512 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieReFocus: The American Directors Series
Antal sidor256
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474493826

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Kim Wilkins is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Screen Cultures at the University of Oslo. She is the author of American Eccentric Cinema (2019) and co-editor with Wyatt Moss-Wellington of Refocus: The Films of Spike Jonze (2019). She has published widely on American indie cinema, German film, and television in numerous journals and edited collections. Timotheus Vermeulen is Professor of Media, Culture and Society at the University of Oslo. He has published widely on screen media, contemporary art and cultural theory. Books include Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect and Depth after Postmodernism (2017), edited with Robin van den Akker and Alison Gibbons, Anmerkungen zur Metamoderne, (2015), Scenes from the Suburbs (2014) and New Suburban Stories (2013), edited with Martin Dines. Vermeulen is a regular contributor to Frieze.

List of figuresNotes on contributorsIntroduction: Linklater’s itinerant oeuvre - Kim Wilkins and Timotheus VermeulenPart 1: Auteur Cinema in Context1. ‘I Think I Still Qualify as a Slacker …Just One that’s Currently Lucky’: The Myths of Slacker, Austin, and Richard Linklater - Mary P. Erickson 2. On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater’s Fast Food Nation - Claire Parkinson3. The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater - Rob Stone4. On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater’s Love for Lacunae - Jeroen BoomPart 2: Genre5. Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams - Timotheus Vermeulen6. Boyhood: Linklater’s Testament of American Youth After 9/11 - Timothy Shary7. The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater’s post-Boyhood Masculinities - Mary Harrod8. Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight - Celestino DeleytoPart 3: Style and Meaning 9. Empathetic Effort in Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bernie - Kim Wilkins10. Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects and SubUrbia - Wyatt Moss-Wellington11. Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood - Bruce Isaacs12. Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Rhythmanalysis - Christopher Holliday