CinemaTexas Notes

The Early Days of Austin Film Culture

Louis Black, Collins Swords (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2018
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-1543-9 (ISBN)

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Written to accompany movies screened by the Radio-Television-Film Department at the University of Texas, the CinemaTexas Notes open a fascinating window on the early Austin film scene and the rise of film studies.

Austin’s thriving film culture, renowned for international events such as SXSW and the Austin Film Festival, extends back to the early 1970s when students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin ran a film programming unit that screened movies for students and the public. Dubbed CinemaTexas, the program offered viewers a wide variety of films—old and new, mainstream, classic, and cult—at a time when finding and watching films after their first run was very difficult and prohibitively expensive. For each film, RTF graduate students wrote program notes that included production details, a sampling of critical reactions, and an original essay that placed the film and its director within context and explained the movie’s historical significance. Over time, CinemaTexas Program Notes became more ambitious and were distributed around the world, including to luminaries such as film critic Pauline Kael.

This anthology gathers a sampling of CinemaTexas Program Notes, organized into four sections: “USA Film History,” “Hollywood Auteurs,” “Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents,” and “America’s Shadow Cinema.” Many of the note writers have become prominent film studies scholars, as well as leading figures in the film, TV, music, and video game industries. As a collection, CinemaTexas Notes strongly contradicts the notion of an effortlessly formed American film canon, showing instead how local film cultures—whether in Austin, New York, or Europe—have forwarded the development of film studies as a discipline.

Louis Black was one of the original writers of the CinemaTexas Program Notes. He cofounded The Austin Chronicle, where he was the editor for thirty-six years, and SXSW, where he is a director, and was a founding board member of the Austin Film Society. He has written extensively on film, music, and politics. In 2016, he and Karen Bernstein directed the documentary Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny, which made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival. A recent MA graduate of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, Collins Swords is a creative assistant to Louis Black, with whom he works in project development, promotion, outreach, editing, and archival research.

Preface
Introduction to CinemaTexas, by Charles Ramírez Berg
Reflections on CinemaTexas, by George Lellis, Lauren Rabinovitz, D. N. Rodowick, and Louis Black
I. USA Film History

Introduction, by Steve Fore and Louis Black
Intolerance (dir. D. W. Griffith, 1916), by Charles Ramírez Berg
Sunrise (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1927), by Warren Spector
Long Pants (dir. Frank Capra, 1927), by D. N. Rodowick
Sherlock Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton, 1924), by D. N. Rodowick
All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Lewis Milestone, 1930), by George Lellis
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra, 1939), by Marie Mahoney
Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941), by John Henley
North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959), by Ed Lowry
Corruption of the Damned (dir. George Kuchar, 1965), by Nick Barbaro
Necrology (dir. Standish Lawder, 1971), by Nick Barbaro
Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson, 1970), by Michael Selig
Nashville (dir. Robert Altman, 1975), by Lauren Rabinovitz

II. Hollywood Auteurs: Ford, Hawkes, Sturges, Minnelli, Sirk

Introduction, by Steve Fore and Louis Black
Stagecoach (dir. John Ford, 1939), by Ed Lowry
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir. John Ford, 1962), by Don Hartack
His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940), by Lauren Rabinovitz
Red River (dir. Howard Hawks, 1948), by Charles Ramírez Berg
Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941), by Ann Laemmle
Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges, 1944), by Michael Selig
Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1944), by George Lellis
Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1953), by Ed Lowry and D. N. Rodowick
All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955), by Valentin Almendarez
Imitation of Life (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1959), by D. N. Rodowick

III. Cinema-Fist: Renegade Talents: Ulmer, Ray, Aldrich, Fuller, Welles, Peckinpah

Introduction, by Steve Fore and Louis Black
Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945), by D. N. Rodowick
They Live by Night (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1948), by Marjorie Baumgarten
In a Lonely Place (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1950), by Ellen Draper
Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955), by Steve Fore
Ulzana’s Band (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1972), by Steve Fore
Forty Guns (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1957), by Valentin Almendarez
Naked Kiss (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1964), by Ed Lowry
Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958), by D. N. Rodowick
The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1969), by Nick Barbaro
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1974), by Louis Black

IV. America’s Shadow Cinema: B Movies, Exploitation Films, and the Avant-Garde

Introduction, by Steve Fore and Louis Black
Hollywood’s Shadow Cinema
My Name is Julia Ross (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1945), by Louis Black
Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1950), by Ed Lowry
Films of Maya Deren (dir. Maya Deren, 1943–1958), by Lauren Rabinovitz and Marjorie Baumgarten
Scorpio Rising (dir. Kenneth Anger, 1964), by Ed Lowry
Two Thousand Maniacs! (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964), by Brian Hanson, Warren Spector, and Louis Black
The Last Movie (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971), by Nick Barbaro, Louis Black, and Ed Lowry
Cage Heat (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1974), by Louis Black
Caged Heat: Second Thoughts, by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974), by Rita TheBerge, Ed Lowry, and Louis Black
Assault on Precinct 13 (dir. John Carpenter, 1976), by Ann Laemmle

Appendix. Original Scanned CinemaTexas Note: Night of the Living Dead (dir. George Romero, 1968), by Kelly Greene
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.03.2018
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4773-1543-8 / 1477315438
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-1543-9 / 9781477315439
Zustand	Neuware