The Cinema of Hal Hartley : : Flirting with Formalism / / ed. by Steven Rybin.

Over the course of nearly thirty years, Hal Hartley has cultivated a reputation as one of America's most steadfastly independent film directors. From his breakthrough films - The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), and Simple Men (1992) - to his recently completed 'Henry Fool' tr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Directors' Cuts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention Steven Rybin
  • 1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition David Bordwell
  • 2. 'Young. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.': Hal Hartley in 1991 Mark L. Berrettini
  • 3. 'Some Things Shouldn't Be Fixed': Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley Jason Davids Scott
  • 4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness Steven Rawle
  • 5. Hal Hartley's Romantic Comedy Sebastian Manley
  • 6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartley's Amateur Daniel Varndell
  • 7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film Steven Rybin
  • 8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
  • 9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors) Zachary Tavlin
  • 10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartley's 'Captive Actress'
  • 11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy
  • Filmography
  • Bibliography
  • Index