The cinema of Hal Hartley / by Sebastian Manley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manley, Sebastian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hartley, Hal, 1959---Interviews.

Hartley, Hal.

Hartley, Hal, 1959---Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishng Plc, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the most significant contributors to the American independent cinema that developed over the late 1980s and 1990s, Hal Hartley has throughout his career created films that defy convention and capture the stranger realities of modern American life. The Cinema of Hal Hartley looks at all of Hartley's film releases - from cult classics such as The Unbelievable Truth and Trust to oddball genre experiments such as No Such Thing and Fay Grim to short films such as Opera No. 1 and Accomplice - and makes a case for seeing Hartley as an important and successful American auteur, despite the director's decline in status in the later stages of his career. Employing both industrial and close textual analysis, the book considers aspects of Hartley's work such as genre, gender and form, as well as dimensions far less frequently discussed in studies of indie directors, such as place and cultural identity, offering a broad and innovative study of a productive filmmaker who continues to show a singular disregard for the expectations of both the mainstream and the indie cinema industries

Contents:

Introduction

The Long Island "trilogy": The unbelievable truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple men (1992)

New horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995)

Imaginative fictions

social realities: The book of life (1998), No such thing (2001) and The girl from Monday (2005)

From old territory to new: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006)

The short films: from Kid (1984) to the PF2 collection

Conclusion

Appendix A: interview with Michael Spiller

Appendix B: interview with Steve Hamilton.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781628929041

1628929049

9781623568801

1623568803

OCLC:

1154953560