Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas - Hardcover

Macor, Alison

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9780292706057: Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas

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ISBN 10: 0292706057 ISBN 13: 9780292706057

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2010

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Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2011 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.

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Alison Macor is the author of Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas, which won the Peter C. Rollins Book of the Year Award from the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. A freelance writer, she holds a PhD in film history and has taught film courses at the University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University.

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