Renowned film theorist, Jonathan Beller, has set forth an interesting theory, in which cinema has transformed into deterritorialized factories in which spectators work-i.e., they perform "value-productive labor" (Beller 1). Beller goes on to argue that corporations make a profit from other people's ...
The year is 1991. A twenty-eight year old film club Austin hipster named Richard Linklater is shooting his second feature film, Slacker. Six years prior, Linklater co-founded "The Austin Film Society" where mentors such as New York City critic George Morris were able to teach film. Despite being a college dropout, Richard Linklater took all of this alternative education and community and made a film that includes a cast of characters familiar both with the movie theater and the movie camera. The explicit references to filmmaking and film viewing is a chorus that subtly runs through S...
