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History of Austin film in one big book
Keep an eye out for professor, author and former freelance Statesman film critic Alison Macor’s definitive history of Austin film, “Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, TX,” hitting shelves in March from University of Texas Press.
The 346-page tome chronicles the people and movies that put our burgh on the celluloid map, from Tobe Hooper and Eagle Pennell to Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez. It drops in on the city’s surplus of film fests, the Austin Film Society and the Alamo Drafthouse phenomenon. Indispensable.
More about the book HERE.
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By Michael Barnes
January 16, 2010 10:47 AM | Link to this
Gotta get this book! Update us as soon as it hits the shelves.