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2012 Peter C. Rollins Book Award Recipient Keynote Address
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Graduate Student Award (English High Tea) Ceremony
The SWTX PCA/ACA cordially invites you to attend our Peter C. Rollins Book Award Keynote Address. This year we honor the acclaimed author Alison Macor for her critically acclaimed Chainsaws, Slackers, and Spy Kids: Thirty Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas (University of Texas Press, 2010)
Book Synopsis:
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.
Alison Macor is a freelance writer and former film critic for the Austin Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman. She has taught film courses at the University of Texas, Austin Community College, and the Austin Museum of Art.
Copyright © 2003-2011 University of Texas Press 
Submission Guidelines for the 2011 Peter C. Rollins Annual Book Award
On behalf of the Southwest Texas Popular/American Culture Association recommendations for the 2012 Peter C. Rollins Book Award are now being accepted. This award recognizes contributions to the study of popular and/or American culture studies and in particular, works analyzing documentary film, television or historical films whose analysis examines a variety of cultural genres. Award-winning volumes receiving this award are distinguished by their methodology and research; monographs, reference works, and anthologies are eligible.
Rollins widely acclaimed reference work The Columbia Companion to American History and Film (2004) and anthologies such as Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History (2008) showcases his professionalism supporting the scholarly work of many individuals. His most recent publication America Reflected: Language, Satire, Film, and the National Mind (2010) explore the nuances of American popular culture. Over a period of thirty years, he shaped editorial policies as Associate Editor of The Journal of Popular Culture and the Journal of American Culture -- as well as Editor-in-Chief of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies that continue to resonant.
Submission Guidelines: Books published either in 2011 or 2012 - single or multiple authors. More than one title may be submitted for consideration (send five copies for each individual title submitted).
Award recipient(s) will be announced during SWTX PCA/ACA Annual Conference, February 8-11,2012 . Direct Shipments to the following:
If shipping by USPS or FedEx:
Ken Dvorak, PhD Coordinator, Peter C. Rollins Book Award Committee PO Box 743 Alcalde, NM 87511
Ken Dvorak, PhD Coordinator, Peter C. Rollins Book Award Committee 37 Rio Arriba County Road 38 Alcalde NM, 87511
---> Rollin Award Submission Guidelines (Updated for 2012) (downloadable PDF document). Winner for 2011
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Cynthia Miller, and Rob Weiner Alison Macor Chainsaws, Slackers and Spy Kids: 30 Years of Filmmaking in Austin, Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010) "A thorough and engaging micro-history; strong scholarship; important contribution to regional and independent film studies; insightful interviews and sharp contextual analysis; writing no 'slacker' could do." Honorable Mention
Karla Rae Fuller, Hollywood Goes Oriental: CaucAsian Performance in American Film (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010). Winner for 2010
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Cynthia Miller, and Rob Weiner Jeet Heer and Kent Worchester, eds. A Comics Studies Reader (UP of Mississippi, 2009) Jeet Heer, editor of Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, is writing a doctoral thesis on the cultural politics of Little Orphan Annie at York University (Toronto). Kent Worcester teaches political theory at Marymount Manhattan College. He is the author of C. L. R. James: A Political Biography and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). Winner for 2009 
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film (U of Texas P, 2008) Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor in the Pan African Studies Department of the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge. Winner for 2008
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman Katie Mills The Road Story and The Rebel: Moving Through Film, Fiction, and Television (Southern Illinois UP, 2006) Katie Mills is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English Writing at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has published essays on the Beat generation and the alternative youth culture in a number of journals and books. Winner for 2007
Judges: Drs. Hugh Foley, Delia Gillis, and Scott Zeman M. Elise Marubbio Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film (The UP of Kentucky, 2006) M. Elise Marubbio is Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and English at Augsburg College. Winner for 2006
Wheeler Winston Dixon Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood (Southern Illinois UP, 2005) Wheeler Winston Dixon, is the Ryan Professor of Film Studies at the University of Nebraska. In addition to his many books and articles, he serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
James M. Welsh, Professor Emeritus of English at Salisbury University is the author and editor of numerous articles, reviews, and collections including The Literature/Film Reader: Issues of Adaptation, co-edited with Peter Lev (Scarecrow, 2007). He serves on the editorial board of Literature/Film Quarterly and is Founder and President of the Literature and Film Association. |
