Cinema of Hal Hartley (eBook)

Flirting with Formalism

Steven Rybin (Herausgeber)

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2016
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-85084-1 (ISBN)

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Steven Rybin is assistant professor of film studies in the English department at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is the author of Michael Mann: Crime Auteur and Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film (2011) and co-editor of Lonely Places, Dangerous Ground: Nicholas Ray in American Cinema (2014).

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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' 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).

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention, by Steven Rybin1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition, by David Bordwell2. 'Young. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.': Hal Hartley in 1991, by Mark L. Berrettini3. 'Some Things Shouldn't Be Fixed': Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley, by Jason Davids Scott4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness, by Steven Rawle5. Hal Hartley's Romantic Comedy, by Sebastian Manley6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartley's Amateur, by Daniel Varndell7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film, by Steven Rybin8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing, by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors), by Zachary Tavlin10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartley's 'Captive Actress', by Jennifer O'Meara11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy, by Steven RybinFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Directors' Cuts
• Reihe/Serie: Directors' Cuts
• Zusatzinfo: 24 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-85084-0 / 0231850840
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-85084-1 / 9780231850841