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