The cinema of Hal Hartley
By: by Sebastian Manley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781501307263; 9781623564322
Subjects: Interviews; Criticism and interpretation
Description: Hal Hartley is considered one of the most significant contributors to the American 'independent' cinema that flowered in the late 1980's and that now occupies a very important place in the American film landscape. Through a detailed discussion of all of Hartley's short and feature-length films, from cult classics such as 'The unbelievable truth' and 'Trust' to oddball genre experiments such as 'No such thing' and 'Fay grim' to shorts such as 'Opera No. 1' and 'Accomplice' and their cultural-economic contexts, this books looks at how Hartley's cultural position has shifted as a result both of his bold career choices and of contextual changes in 1990s and 2000s American film.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Long Island "trilogy": The unbelievable truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple men (1992); title: New horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995); title: Imaginative fictions/social realities: The book of life (1998), No such thing (2001) and The girl from Monday (2005); title: From old territory to new: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006); title: The short films: from Kid (1984) to the PF2 collection.