Cinematexas Notes: The Early Days of Austin Film Culture

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477315446
• ISBN13: 9781477315446
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"