ReFocus: The Films of Richard Linklater

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.

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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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Linklater’s Itinerant Oeuvre
pp 1-12
- By Kim Wilkins, Timotheus Vermeulen
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Part 1 - Auteur Cinema in Context
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Chapter 1 - ‘I Think I Still Qualify as a Slacker … Just One that’s Currently Lucky’: The Myths of Slacker, Austin, and Richard Linklater
pp 15-33
- By Mary P. Erickson
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Chapter 2 - On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater’s Fast Food Nation
pp 34-49
- By Claire Parkinson
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Chapter 3 - The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater
pp 50-66
- By Rob Stone
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Chapter 4 - On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater’s Love for Lacunae
pp 67-82
- By Jeroen Boom
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Part 2 - Genre as Means
pp 83-84
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Chapter 5 - Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams
pp 85-99
- By Timotheus Vermeulen
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Chapter 6 - Boyhood: Linklater’s Testament of American Youth after 9/11
pp 100-114
- By Timothy Shary
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Chapter 7 - The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater’s Post-Boyhood Masculinities
pp 115-135
- By Mary Harrod
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Chapter 8 - Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight
pp 136-154
- By Celestino Deleyto
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Part 3 - Style and Meaning
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Chapter 9 - Empathetic Effort in Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bernie
pp 157-175
- By Kim Wilkins
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Chapter 10 - Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects, and SubUrbia
pp 176-193
- By Wyatt Moss-Wellington
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Chapter 11 - Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood
pp 194-209
- By Bruce Isaacs
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Chapter 12 - Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and Rhythmanalysis
pp 210-233
- By Christopher Holliday
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Index
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-vii

Notes on Contributors
pp viii-xii

Introduction: Linklater’s Itinerant Oeuvre
pp 1-12

Part 1 - Auteur Cinema in Context
pp 13-14

Chapter 1 - ‘I Think I Still Qualify as a Slacker … Just One that’s Currently Lucky’: The Myths of Slacker, Austin, and Richard Linklater
pp 15-33

Chapter 2 - On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater’s Fast Food Nation
pp 34-49

Chapter 3 - The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater
pp 50-66

Chapter 4 - On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater’s Love for Lacunae
pp 67-82

Part 2 - Genre as Means
pp 83-84

Chapter 5 - Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams
pp 85-99

Chapter 6 - Boyhood: Linklater’s Testament of American Youth after 9/11
pp 100-114

Chapter 7 - The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater’s Post-Boyhood Masculinities
pp 115-135

Chapter 8 - Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight
pp 136-154

Part 3 - Style and Meaning
pp 155-156

Chapter 9 - Empathetic Effort in Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bernie
pp 157-175

Chapter 10 - Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects, and SubUrbia
pp 176-193

Chapter 11 - Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood
pp 194-209

Chapter 12 - Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and Rhythmanalysis
pp 210-233

Index
pp 234-239

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