Books in French are on www.livres-cinema.info
Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids
Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas
by Alison Macor
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
During the 1990s, Austin achieved "overnight" success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez proved that locally made films with regional themes such as Slacker and El Mariachi could capture a national audience. Their success helped transform Austin's homegrown film community into a professional film industry staffed with talented, experienced filmmakers and equipped with state-of-the art-production facilities. Today, Austin struggles to balance the growth and expansion of its film community with an ongoing commitment to nurture the next generation of independent filmmakers.
Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids chronicles the evolution of this struggle by re-creating Austin's colorful movie history. Based on revealing interviews with Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, Mike Judge, Quentin Tarantino, Matthew McConaughey, George Lucas, and more than one hundred other players in the local and national film industries, Alison Macor explores how Austin has become a proving ground for contemporary independent cinema. She begins in the early 1970s with Tobe Hooper's horror classic, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and follows the development of the Austin film scene through 2001 with the production and release of Rodriguez's $100-million blockbuster, Spy Kids. Each chapter explores the behind-the-scenes story of a specific movie, such as Linklater's Dazed and Confused and Judge's Office Space, against the backdrop of Austin's ever-expanding film community.
See the publisher website: University of Texas Press
> From the same author:
Making The Best Years of Our Lives (2023)
The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a Nation
by Alison Macor
Subject: One Film > The Best Years of Our Lives
Rewrite Man (2017)
The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren
by Alison Macor
Subject: Others persons > Warren Skaaren
> On a related topic:
Gender and Genre in 1990s Hollywood (2024)
Challenging Definitions of Sex, Women, and Femininity
Subject: Sociology
New Brutality Film (2005)
Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
by Paul Gormley
Subject: Sociology
Motion Picture Paradise (2024)
A History of Florida's Film and Television Industry
by David Morton
Subject: Economics
Motion Picture Exhibition in Baltimore (2013)
An Illustrated History and Directory of Theaters, 1895–2004
Subject: Economics
Cinema and Community (2013)
Progressivism, Exhibition, and Film Culture in Chicago, 1907-1917
by Moya Luckett
Subject: Silent Cinema
Historic Movie Theatres of Wisconsin (2009)
Nineteenth Century Opera Houses through 1950s Playhouses, Town by Town
Subject: Economics
Back
