Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley
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40. Drake, “Reconceptualizing Screen Performance”, 90.
41. Ibid., 93.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid. Drake situates performance as “a social and rhetorical event”, one that is not reliant on the reading of a “reflection”, a representation of an external reality, but of film performance as “cultural practices”.
44. Ibid.
45. “Hartley’s Globe-trotters”, The Guardian, February 21, 1997, http://drumz.best.vwh.net/Hartley/Reviews/guardian-flirt.html.
46. Lesley Deer, “Hal Hartley”, in Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, ed. Yvonne Tasker (London: Routledge, 2002), 161–169; Lesley Deer, “The Repetition of Difference: Marginality and the Films of Hal Hartley”, Thesis (Newcastle upon Tyne: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2000); Kevin Taylor Anderson, “Finding the Essential: A Phenomenological Look at Hal Hartley’s No Such Thing”, Film & Philosophy 7, no. 1 (2003): 77–91; Sophie Wise, “What I Like About Hal Hartley, or Rather, What Hal Hartley Likes About Me: The Performance of the Spect(actor)”, in Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, ed. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros (Sydney: Power, 1999), 243–275. I am also currently aware of two PhDs underway on Hartley in the United Kingdom and Denmark.
47. Jason Wood, Hal Hartley (Harpenden: Pocket Essentials, 2003).
48. Hal Hartley, DVD Notes, Possible Films: Short Works by Hal Hartley, 1994–2004 (New York: Possible Films, 2004).
49. Deer’s work “The Repetition of Difference”; “Hal Hartley” comments at length on the similarities between Hartley and Godard, and Wise has also reflected on certain Brechtian elements in Hartley’s work.
50. Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer, trans. Jonathan Griffin (Copenhagen: Green Integer, 1997), 124–125.
51. Ibid., 16.
52. Ibid., 14.
53. Keith Reader, Robert Bresson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), 4, 129.
54. Graham Fuller and Hal Hartley, “Finding the Essential: Hal Hartley in Conversation with Graham Fuller, 1992”, in Hal Hartley, Collected Screenplays 1, (London: Faber & Faber, 2002), viii; excerpted in James Quandt, ed., Robert Bresson (Toronto: Toronto International Film Festival Group, 2000), 559.