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:   0.380kg
ISBN:  

9781474411127

ISBN 10:   1474411126
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   16 March 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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

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""

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"

Author Information

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

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