{"product_id":"the-cinema-of-hal-hartley","title":"Cinema of Hal Hartley","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Cinema of Hal Hartley\u003c\/i\u003e looks at all of Hartley's film releases - from cult classics such as \u003ci\u003eThe Unbelievable Truth\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTrust\u003c\/i\u003e to oddball genre experiments such as \u003ci\u003eNo Such Thing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFay Grim\u003c\/i\u003e to short films such as \u003ci\u003eOpera No. 1\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAccomplice\u003c\/i\u003e - 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. \u003cbr\u003eEmploying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Continuum Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32185072484435,"sku":"","price":173.6,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781623564322_6877156f-4ae8-4867-8fd2-1f7ccae961b0.jpg?v=1764725435","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-cinema-of-hal-hartley","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}