5 Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Linklater’s Itinerant Oeuvre 1
6. Part 1 Auteur Cinema in Context
7. 1 ‘I Think I Still Qualify as a Slacker . . . Just One that’s Currently Lucky’: The Myths of Slacker, Austin, and Richard Linklater 15
8. 2 On Being a Vegetarian in Texas: The Incongruities and Politics of Linklater’s Fast Food Nation 34
9. 3 The Little Space Between Hal Ashby and Richard Linklater 50
10. 4 On Drifts and Swerves: Linklater’s Love for Lacunae 67
11. Part 2 Genre as Means
12. 5 Richard Linklater and the Field of American Dreams 85
13. 6 Boyhood: Linklater’s Testament of American Youth after 9/11 100
14. 7 The (Un)bearable Weight of Gendered Genre: Richard Linklater’s Post-Boyhood Masculinities 115
15. 8 Stories So Far: Romantic Comedy and/as Space in Before Midnight 136
16. Part 3 Style and Meaning
17. 9 Empathetic Effort in Where’d You Go, Bernadette and Bernie 157
18. 10 Richard Linklater’s Humanism: Moral Primacy, Recency Effects, and SubUrbia 176
19. 11 Keeping Time in Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!!, and Boyhood 194
20. 12 Rhythm and the Rotoshop: Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, and Rhythmanalysis 210
21. Index 234