5. Hal Hartley’s Romantic Comedy Sebastian Manley

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Hal Hartley: A Quality of Attention Steven Rybin 1
6. 1. Up Close and Impersonal: Hal Hartley and the Persistence of Tradition David Bordwell 13
7. 2. ‘Young. Middle-Class. College-Educated. Unskilled.’: Hal Hartley in 1991 Mark L. Berrettini 30
8. 3. ‘Some Things Shouldn’t Be Fixed’: Frameworks of Critical Reception and the Early Career of Hal Hartley Jason Davids Scott 43
9. 4. The Locality of Hal Hartley: The Aesthetics and Business of Smallness Steven Rawle 60
10. 5. Hal Hartley’s Romantic Comedy Sebastian Manley 77
11. 6. A New Man: The Logic of the Break in Hal Hartley’s Amateur Daniel Varndell 94
12. 7. Not Getting It: Flirt as Anti-Puzzle Film Steven Rybin 109
13. 8. Poiesis and Media in The Book of Life and No Such Thing Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns 121
14. 9. Bodies, Space and Theatre in The Unbelievable Truth (and its American Precursors) Zachary Tavlin 132
15. 10. Parker Posey as Hal Hartley’s ‘Captive Actress’ 144
16. 11. The Figure Who Writes: On the Henry Fool Trilogy 159
17. Filmography 175
18. Bibliography 181
19. Index 193