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Table of Contents
List of Figures |
Preface |
Introduction: The Cinema of Hal Hartley and Performance |
Chapter 1: Critical Approaches |
Realism |
Abstraction and Empathy |
Abstraction-Alienation-Distanciation |
Performance |
Chapter 2: The Quality or State of Being Changeable |
Trust: Vicissitude 69 |
The Unbelievable Truth: A Performance of Gender 87 |
Tonality and the “Mannequin” Performer |
Chapter 3: Dance |
Surviving Desire: Dance, Performance, and Cultural Images 112 |
Simple Men: Dichotomies of Performed Images 135 |
Chapter 4: “There’s only trouble and desire” |
Simple Men: The Failure of Masculine Performance 153 |
Amateur: Performing Violence 161 |
Chapter 5: “The world is a dangerous and uncertain place” |
Flirt: Images and Difference 196 |