Overview

Over her six-film career, including works like Old Joy, Meek's Cutoff and Certain Women, the independent filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has established a highly individual perspective on questions of gender, feminism, socioeconomics and sexual orientation, set within an aesthetic framework that is guided by the low-budget techniques of 'slow cinema', minimalism and neorealism. In this close reading of her films and production methods, E. Dawn Hall defines Reichardt's auteur characteristics, arguing that she offers a contemporary and sustainable model for independent filmmakers in America.

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Author:   E. Dawn Hall (Professor, Western Kentucky University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Weight:   0.268kg
ISBN:  

9781474452243

ISBN 10:   1474452248
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   07 August 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

DedicationAcknowledgements Kelly Reichardt as Auteur A Closer Look: Kelly Reichardt Precursor: River of GrassProductionA Female Centered Road MovieFeminist Counter-CinemaTaboo Topics: Post-Partum and Role ReversalsPowerless MenLiminal Existence Growth: ""Ode,"" ""Then, A Year"" and ""Travis"" ""Ode"" (1999) ""Then, a Year"" (2001) ""Travis"" (2004) Discovery: Old Joy Production Complicating Masculinity Politics and Personal Identity Inserting the Feminine Breakthrough:Wendy and Lucy ProductionNeo-Neorealism Gender and the Narrative of Homelessness Social Realism and the At-Risk vs. the Can-do Girl Ecofeminist Concerns Expectations: Meek's Cutoff The Real Story of Meek Production SoundQuestions of Genre: Feminist WesternSlow Cinema and Neo-Neorealism""Politicking,"" Race, and Violence The Open Image in Slow Cinema Expansion: Night Moves ProductionSound Denying ExpectationsPolitical ConnectionsHistorical Implications: OklahomaEarth Liberation Front (ELF)Maternity and Post FeminismA Character Study Solidificaton: Certain WomenProductionAdaptation: Lost Characters and Open Endings An Interview with Kelly Reichardt Filmography Bibliography

Reviews

Structured wonderfully and in a way that makes the chronological flow feel less rigid and more natural, The Films Of Kelly Reichardt is a thrilling and deeply important (and incredibly easy to read and fly right on through) meditation on a filmmaker whose import will be felt for years and generations to come. --Joshua Brunsting CriterionCast

Structured wonderfully and in a way that makes the chronological flow feel less rigid and more natural, 'The Films Of Kelly Reichardt' is a thrilling and deeply important (and incredibly easy to read and fly right on through) meditation on a filmmaker whose import will be felt for years and generations to come. -- Joshua Brunsting, CriterionCast

Dawn Hall's study of Kelly Reichardt, one of the greatest contemporary American independent directors, is most warmly welcome. Eminently readable and teachable, with a wealth of useful information on each film's production, distribution and reception, Hall's survey is sure to make you want to see and re-see, and to see more of, Reichardt's richly rewarding films.--Professor Christine Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville Structured wonderfully and in a way that makes the chronological flow feel less rigid and more natural, The Films Of Kelly Reichardt is a thrilling and deeply important (and incredibly easy to read and fly right on through) meditation on a filmmaker whose import will be felt for years and generations to come.--Joshua Brunsting ""CriterionCast""

Author Information

E. Dawn Hall is a professor in the English Department at Western Kentucky University.

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