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Richard Linklater

by David T. Johnson
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Richard Linklater's filmmaking choices seem to defy basic patterns of authorship. From his debut with the inventive independent narrative Slacker, the Austin-based director's divergent films have included the sci-fi noir A Scanner Darkly, the socially conscious Fast Food Nation, the kid-friendly The School of Rock, the teen ensemble Dazed and Confused, and the twin romances Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Yet throughout his varied career spanning two decades, Linklater has maintained a sense of integrity while working within a broad range of budgets, genres, and subject matters. Identifying a critical commonality among so much variation, David T. Johnson analyzes Linklater's preoccupation with the concept of time in many of his films, focusing on its many forms and aspects: the subjective experience of time and the often explicit, self-aware ways that characters discuss that experience; time and memory, and the ways that characters negotiate memory in the present; the moments of adolescence and early adulthood as crucial moments in time; the relationship between time and narrative in film; and how cinema, itself, may be becoming antiquated. While Linklater's focus on temporality often involves a celebration of the present that is not divorced from the past and future, Johnson argues that this attendance to the present also includes an ongoing critique of modern American culture. Crucially filling a gap in critical studies of this American director, the volume concludes with an interview with Linklater discussing his career. | Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments TIME IS A LIE Slowly Moving Trains, Welcome to Austin, and L-I-V-I-N A Brief Encounter, the Road to Burnfield, and One Hell of a Way to Make a Living Dreaming in Digital, Motel Confessions, and the Poet of Wall Street For Those about to Rock, Late Afternoon in Paris, and Remixing a Little League Season Little Blue Flowers and Echoes from the Slaughterhouse Fields of Play and Waiting for Orson INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD LINKLATER Filmography Bibliography Index Back Cover | "Refreshingly open-minded."—Senses of Cinema
"In addition to Johnson's critical insights, a lengthy interview with the director is included. . . . This book is ideal for scholars of American independent cinema."—Library Journal
"The most exhaustive, densest study of Linklater's work yet published. . . . A terrific resource on an oddly underdiscussed director."—Austin American-Statesman

"Readers will find that reading this highly engaging and accessible book engenders a desire to delve further into the world of an important director."—Screening The Past

| David T. Johnson is an associate professor of English at Salisbury University and the coeditor of Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly.

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    Contemporary Film Directors

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    October 24, 2013

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    • Library Journal

      March 15, 2012

      Film scholar Johnson (English, Salisbury Univ.; editor, Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly) examines the somewhat neglected output of American independent filmmaker Richard Linklater in this entry in the "Contemporary Film Directors" series. While a director such as Hitchcock might be known for his predilection for thrillers, Linklater's career has had no obvious thematic through line. Thus Johnson's studied analysis of Linklater's work strives to turn his disparate output into a recognizable oeuvre. Johnson covers the director's development comprehensively, from his early filmed experiments in Austin, TX, such as Slacker, to his recent spate of studio works, including A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation. The film-by-film discussions offered here are largely successful, focusing both on the philosophical underpinnings behind each movie's uniquely structured narrative and Linklater's distinctive formal devices. In addition to Johnson's critical insights, a lengthy interview with the director is included. VERDICT A more scholarly accounting of Linklater's films than Thomas A. Christie's The Cinema of Richard Linklater, this book is ideal for scholars of American independent cinema or those interested in the director's movies.--Jeremy Heilman, New York

      Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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