The Cinema Of Hal Hartley

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231176170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Hal Hartley written by Steven Rybin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, his reworking of the romantic comedy and other genres, and the shifting economics of his filmmaking.

Author : Sebastian Manley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 162356865X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Hal Hartley written by Sebastian Manley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Steven Rybin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850840
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cinema of Hal Hartley written by Steven Rybin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968537
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ted Hope
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619023954
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hope for Film written by Ted Hope and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Essential for the aspiring filmmaker,” this is an inspiring, tell-all look at the independent film business from one of the industry’s most passionate supporters (Todd Solondz, director of Welcome to the Dollhouse) Hope for Film captures the rebellious punk spirit of the indie film boom in 1990s New York City and its collapse two decades later to its technology-fueled regeneration and continuing streaming-based evolution. Ted Hope, whose films have garnered 12 Oscar nominations, draws from his own personal experiences working on the early films of Ang Lee, Eddie Burns, Alan Ball, Todd Field, Hal Hartley, Michel Gondry, Nicole Holofcener, and Todd Solondz, as well as his tenures at the San Francisco Film Society, Fandor, and Amazon Studios, taking readers through the decision-making process that brought him the occasional failure as well as much success. Whether navigating negotiations with studio executives over final cuts or clashing with high-powered CAA agents over their clients, Hope offers behind-the-scenes stories from the wild and often heated world of “specialized” cinema--where art and commerce collide. As mediator between these two opposing interests, Hope offers his unique perspective on how to make movies while keeping your integrity intact and how to create a sustainable business enterprise out of that art while staying true to yourself. Against a backdrop of seismic changes in the independent film industry, from corporate co-option to the rise of social media and the streaming giants, Hope for Film provides not only an entertaining and intimate ride through the business of arthouse movies over the last decades, but also hope for its future. “There is nobody in the independent film world quite like Ted Hope. His wisdom and heart shine through every page.” —Ang Lee, Academy Award winning director of Brokeback Mountain

Author : Mark L. Berrettini
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 025203595X
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hal Hartley written by Mark L. Berrettini and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world. In this pioneering critical overview of his work and its cultural-historical context, Mark L. Berrettini discusses seven of Harley's feature films ... Drawing on journalism, theories of representation, narrative and genre, and cinema history, Berrettini discusses the absurdist-comedic representation of serious themes in Harley's films: impossible love, coincidence and human relations, extreme isolation, and the restrictions posed by gender norms. He notes how these themes reappear withing framing narratives that shift from the seemingly mundane in Harley's earliest works to the vibrantly creative and fantastic in his later films. Employing close analysis and theories related to cinematic narrative and realism, the book considers aspects of American independent cinema and postwar European cinema, antirealism, and minimalism. The volume concludes with a pair of in-depth interviews with the director from two distinct points in his career."--Back cover.

Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764908
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking Movies written by Jason Wood and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Talking Movies' is a collection of interviews with some of the most audacious and respected contemporary filmmakers of the present generation.

Author : Marc James Léger
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781783204854
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drive in Cinema written by Marc James Léger and published by Intellect (UK). This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Drive in Cinema, Marc James L ger presents Zizek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most influential filmmakers of our time, including Jean-Luc Godard, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, William Klein, Jim Jarmusch, Hal Hartley, Harmony Korine, and more. Working with radical theory and Lacanian ethics, L ger draws surprising connections between art, film, and politics, taking his analysis beyond the academic obsession with cultural representation and filmic technique and instead revealing film's potential as an emancipatory force.

Author : Jonathan Rosenbaum
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1556529937
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movie Wars written by Jonathan Rosenbaum and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the cinema, as writers from David Denby to Susan Sontag have claimed, really dead? Contrary to what we have been led to believe, films are better than ever—we just can't see the good ones. Movie Wars cogently explains how movies are packaged, distributed, and promoted, and how, at every stage of the process, the potential moviegoer is treated with contempt. Using examples ranging from the New York Times's coverage of the Cannes film festival to the anticommercial practices of Orson Welles, Movie Wars details the workings of the powerful forces that are in the process of ruining our precious cinematic culture and heritage, and the counterforces that have begun to fight back.

Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : No Exit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904048145
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hal Hartley written by Jason Wood and published by No Exit Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amongst the most distinctive voices in American independent cinema, Hal Hartley has amassed an eclectic and acclaimed body of work distinguished by its willingness to experiment and its playful disregard for convention. Hartley first came to prominence with 1989's wry, quizzical The Unbelievable Truth, a micro-budget examination of small-town ennui. The film deftly depicted the complexity of relationships and the fraught journey toward selfhood; themes to which Hartley returned in subsequent stylish, confident and visually assured Long Island features: Trust and Simple Men. Cultivating relationships with collaborators including cinematographer Michael Spiller and actors Martin Donovan, Adrienne Shelly and Parker Posey, Hartley continues to explore the possibilities of the medium in a series of sharply scripted, enigmatic and frequently comical shorts and features. Flirt, Amateur and the digitally shot The Book of Life are representative of Hartley's inimitable and influential style and of his singular, inquisitive and daring vision. The first book dedicated to Hartley's work, The Pocket Essential Hal Hartley offers an in-depth analysis of the director's shorts and features. Book jacket.