Performance in the cinema of Hal Hartley
By: Steven Rawle
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781604977455
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction : the cinema of Hal Hartley and performance; title: Critical approaches realism. Abstraction and empathy; title: Abstraction-alienation-distanciation performance; title: The quality or state of being changeable. Trust: vicissitude; title: The unbelievable truth: a performance of gender; title: Tonality & the "mannequin" performer; title: Dance; title: Surviving desire: dance, performance & cultural-images; title: Simple men: dichotomies of performed images; title: "There's only trouble and desire". Simple men: the failure of masculine performance; title: Amateur: performing violence; title: "The world is a dangerous and uncertain place"; title: Flirt: images & difference; title: Henry Fool: gesture as characterisation; title: No such thing & the fictionality of performance; title: Possible films. Hal Hartley: digital auteur; title: The book of life & the performance of the image; title: The new math(s) & the performance of "dynamic space"; title: The girl from monday & the romantic performance of stillness; title: Fay Grim & the play with genre; title: Post-script: possible films 2; title: Conclusions.