Overview

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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Author:   Kim Wilkins (Postdoctoral Fellow in Screen Cultures, University of Oslo) ,  Timotheus Vermeulen (Professor of Media, Culture and Society, University of Oslo)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474493826

ISBN 10:   1474493823
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures Notes on contributors Introduction: Linklater’s itinerant oeuvre - Kim Wilkins and Timotheus Vermeulen 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 - Mary P. Erickson 2. On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater’s Fast Food Nation - Claire Parkinson 3. The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater - Rob Stone 4. On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater’s Love for Lacunae - Jeroen Boom Part 2: Genre 5. Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams - Timotheus Vermeulen 6. Boyhood: Linklater’s Testament of American Youth After 9/11 - Timothy Shary 7. The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater’s post-Boyhood Masculinities - Mary Harrod 8. Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight - Celestino Deleyto Part 3: Style and Meaning 9. Empathetic Effort in Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bernie - Kim Wilkins 10. Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects and SubUrbia - Wyatt Moss-Wellington 11. Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood - Bruce Isaacs 12. Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Rhythmanalysis - Christopher Holliday

Reviews

"""Rather than trying to fit Linklater's filmmaking and its shifts between scales of production and variances in narrative, style and theme into a singular auteurist vision, this collection skillfully promotes the value of approaching artistic achievement from different perspectives. What emerges is a critically rich exploration of resemblance and relationality."" -Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St Andrews"

""Rather than trying to fit Linklater's filmmaking and its shifts between scales of production and variances in narrative, style and theme into a singular auteurist vision, this collection skillfully promotes the value of approaching artistic achievement from different perspectives. What emerges is a critically rich exploration of resemblance and relationality."" -Lucy Fife Donaldson, University of St Andrews

Author Information

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.

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