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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
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction Chapter 1
The Long Island 'Trilogy': The Unbelievable Truth (1989), Trust (1990) and Simple Men (1992)
Chapter 2
New Horizons: Amateur (1994) and Flirt (1995)
Chapter 3
Imaginative Fictions/Social Realities: The Book of Life (1998), No Such Thing (2001) and The Girl from Monday (2005)
Chapter 4
From Old Territory to New: Henry Fool (1997) and Fay Grim (2006)
Chapter 5
The Short Films: From Kid (1984) to the PF2 Collection
Conclusion
Appendix A
Interview with Michael Spiller
Appendix B
Interview with Steve Hamilton
Bibliography
