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Book SynopsisWritten 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.
Trade ReviewAustin is known as a film-watching city, but that reputation doesn't come from nowhere. Its seeds were planted in CinemaTexas, the film programming unit of UT's Department of Radio-Television-Film... [the CinemaTexas Program Notes] were Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, and
Cahiers du Cinéma melded into zine form. * Austin Chronicle *
In the early 1970s film scholarship was still in its (relative) infancy, hampered by the difficulty of gaining access to the films themselves. At the University of Texas, Austin, a group of ambitious graduate students took on the challenge of writing program notes for a wide-ranging film series, based on fresh viewings of the movies. . . [There is] a nostalgia for the time and place these essays evoke, before the emergence of home video and streaming. Contributor Charles Ramirez Berg accurately describes them as “love letters to the cinema” and they are well worth reading. -- Leonard Maltin * leonardmaltin.com *
Put this on your Austin shelf next to Alison Macor's essential history,
Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids, and Mike Blizzard's documentary film
Also Starring Austin. ...Along with a bit of history, we are lucky enough to read in this book the incredibly well-researched--especially for the pre-internet days—program notes from CinemaTexas days. * austin360 *
Table of Contents
- 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
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Intolerance (dir. D. W. Griffith, 1916), by Charles Ramírez Berg
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Sunrise (dir. F. W. Murnau, 1927), by Warren Spector
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Long Pants (dir. Frank Capra, 1927), by D. N. Rodowick
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Sherlock Jr. (dir. Buster Keaton, 1924), by D. N. Rodowick
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All Quiet on the Western Front (dir. Lewis Milestone, 1930), by George Lellis
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (dir. Frank Capra, 1939), by Marie Mahoney
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Citizen Kane (dir. Orson Welles, 1941), by John Henley
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North by Northwest (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959), by Ed Lowry
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Corruption of the Damned (dir. George Kuchar, 1965), by Nick Barbaro
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Necrology (dir. Standish Lawder, 1971), by Nick Barbaro
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Five Easy Pieces (dir. Bob Rafelson, 1970), by Michael Selig
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Nashville (dir. Robert Altman, 1975), by Lauren Rabinovitz
- II. Hollywood Auteurs: Ford, Hawkes, Sturges, Minnelli, Sirk
- Introduction, by Steve Fore and Louis Black
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Stagecoach (dir. John Ford, 1939), by Ed Lowry
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (dir. John Ford, 1962), by Don Hartack
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His Girl Friday (dir. Howard Hawks, 1940), by Lauren Rabinovitz
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Red River (dir. Howard Hawks, 1948), by Charles Ramírez Berg
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Sullivan’s Travels (dir. Preston Sturges, 1941), by Ann Laemmle
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Hail the Conquering Hero (dir. Preston Sturges, 1944), by Michael Selig
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Meet Me in St. Louis (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1944), by George Lellis
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Band Wagon (dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1953), by Ed Lowry and D. N. Rodowick
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All That Heaven Allows (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955), by Valentin Almendarez
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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
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Detour (dir. Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945), by D. N. Rodowick
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They Live by Night (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1948), by Marjorie Baumgarten
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In a Lonely Place (dir. Nicholas Ray, 1950), by Ellen Draper
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Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955), by Steve Fore
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Ulzana’s Band (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1972), by Steve Fore
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Forty Guns (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1957), by Valentin Almendarez
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Naked Kiss (dir. Samuel Fuller, 1964), by Ed Lowry
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Touch of Evil (dir. Orson Welles, 1958), by D. N. Rodowick
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The Wild Bunch (dir. Sam Peckinpah, 1969), by Nick Barbaro
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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
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My Name is Julia Ross (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1945), by Louis Black
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Gun Crazy (dir. Joseph H. Lewis, 1950), by Ed Lowry
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Films of Maya Deren (dir. Maya Deren, 1943–1958), by Lauren Rabinovitz and Marjorie Baumgarten
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Scorpio Rising (dir. Kenneth Anger, 1964), by Ed Lowry
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Two Thousand Maniacs! (dir. Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1964), by Brian Hanson, Warren Spector, and Louis Black
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The Last Movie (dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971), by Nick Barbaro, Louis Black, and Ed Lowry
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Cage Heat (dir. Jonathan Demme, 1974), by Louis Black
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Caged Heat: Second Thoughts, by Marjorie Baumgarten
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (dir. Tobe Hooper, 1974), by Rita TheBerge, Ed Lowry, and Louis Black
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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
