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About this book
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 â The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990), and Simple Men (1992) â to his recently completed 'Henry Fool' trilogy, Hartley has honed a rigorous, deadpan, and instantly recognizable film style informed by both European modernism and playful revisions of Classical Hollywood genres. Featuring new essays on this important director and his films, this collection explores Hartley's work from a variety of aesthetic, cultural, and economic contexts, while also looking closely at his collaborations with actors, the contexts of his authorial reputation, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shifting economics of his filmmaking.
This book, up-to-date through Hartley's latest film, Ned Rifle (2014), includes new scholarship on the director's early work as well as reflections on his cinema in connection with new theories and approaches to independent filmmaking. Covering the entire trajectory of his career, including both his features and short films, the book also includes new readings of several of Hartley's seminal films, including Amateur (1994), Flirt (1995), and Henry Fool (1997).
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Table of contents
- CoverÂ
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- ContentsÂ
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention
- 1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition
- 2. âYoung. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.â: Hal Hartley in 1991
- 3. âSome Things Shouldnât Be Fixedâ: Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley
- 4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness
- 5. Hal Hartleyâs Romantic Comedy
- 6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartleyâs Amateur
- 7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film
- 8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing
- 9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors)
- 10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartleyâs âCaptive Actressâ
- 11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index