Hal Hartley Philip C. Kendall Comer Melissa Stockwell Krista Austin

Comer Melissa Stockwell Krista Austin Gale Bernhardt Wendy Francke Rebeccah Wassner Laurel Wassner Shelly O'Brien Melanie McQuaid Celeste Callahan Brenda Barrera With the latest research

McElhaney's stance toward his subject echoes Maysles's toward his subject: sympathetic

Self-Portrait as Othello focuses on a character at once fictional and real

based on primary sources and previously unpublished material

located on Randall's Island in the East River

Hal Hartley Philip C. Kendall Comer Melissa Stockwell Krista AustinSince the late 1980s, Hal Hartley has challenged standards of realist narrative cinema with daring narrative constructions, character development, and the creation of an unconventional visual world. In this pioneering critical overview of his work and its cultural historical context, Mark L. Berrettini discusses seven of Hartley's feature films, including The Unbelievable Truth, Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, Henry Fool, Fay Grim, and The Book of Life.