Slow cinema /
In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years. Though not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-lian...
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Traditions in world cinema
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Table of Contents:
- note: pt. I HISTORICISING SLOW CINEMA
- 1 Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity / Lucia Nagib
- 2. Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer's Film Style / C. Claire Thomson
- 3. First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time / Michael Walsh
- 4. `The attitude of smoking and observing': Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet / Martin Brady
- pt. II CONTEXTUALISING SLOW CINEMA
- 5. Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-Hang and a Cinema of Slowness / Song Hwee Lim
- 6. Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cinema / Glyn Davis
- 7. Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz / William Brown
- 8. Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff / Elena Gorfinkel
- 9. If These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke / Cecilia Mello
- pt. III SLOW CINEMA AND LABOUR
- 10. Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema's Labouring Body, the Political Spectator and the Queer / Karl Schoonover
- 11. Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room / Nuno Barradas Jorge
- 12. Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing's Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks / Patrick Brian Smith
- 13. `Slow Sounds': Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin's Oxhide and Oxhide II / Philippa Lovatt
- pt. IV SLOW CINEMA AND THE NON-HUMAN
- 14. It's About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos / Stephanie Lam
- 15. Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas's Japon and Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos / Tiago de Luca
- 16. Sleeping Spectator: Non-human Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami's Five: Dedicated to Ozu / Justin Remes
- pt. V ETHICS AND POLITICS OF SLOWNESS
- 17. Bela Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction / Jacques Ranciere
- 18. Ethics of the Landscape Shot: AKA Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals / Julian Ross
- 19. Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration / Asbjørn Grønstad
- pt. VI BEYOND `SLOW CINEMA'
- 20. Performing Evolution: Immersion, Unfolding and Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence / Matilda Mroz
- 21. Slow Road to Europe: the Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen / Michael Gott
- 22. Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema / Paul Cooke.
- Part I Historicislng Slow Cinema
- 1 The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity / Lúcia Nagib Nagib, Lúcia 25
- 2 The Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer's Film Style / C. Claire Thomson Thomson, C. Claire 47
- 3 The First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time / Michael Walsh Walsh, Michael 59
- 4 'The attitude of smoking and observing': Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet / Martin Brady Brady, Martin 71
- Part II Contextualising Slow Cinema
- 5 Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness / Song Hwee Lim Lim, Song Hwee 87
- 6 Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cinema / Glyn Davis Davis, Glyn 99
- 7 Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz / William Brown Brown, William 112
- 8 Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff / Elena Gorfinkel Gorfinkel, Elena 123
- 9 If These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke / Cecilia Mello Mello, Cecilia 137
- Part III Slow Cinema and Labour
- 10 Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema's Labouring Body, the Political Spectator and the Queer / Karl Schoonover Schoonover, Karl 153
- 11 Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room / Nuno Barradas Jorge Jorge, Nuno Barradas 169
- 12 Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing's Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks / Patrick Brian Smith Smith, Patrick Brian 180
- 13 'Slow Sounds': Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin's Oxhide and Oxhide II / Philippa Lovatt Lovatt, Philippa 192
- Part IV Slow Cinema and the Non-Human
- 14 It's About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos / Stephanie Lam Lam, Stephanie 207
- 15 Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas's Japón and Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos / Tiago de Luca Luca, Tiago de 219
- 16 The Sleeping Spectator: Non-human Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami's Five: Dedicated to Ozu / Justin Remes Remes, Justin 231
- Part V The Ethics and Politics of Slowness
- 17 Béla Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction / Jacques Rancière Rancière, Jacques 245
- 18 Ethics of the Landscape Shot: AKA Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals / Julian Ross Ross, Julian 261
- 19 Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration / Asbjørn Grønstad Grønstad, Asbjørn 273
- Part VI Beyond 'Slow Cinema'
- 20 Performing Evolution: Immersion, Unfolding and Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence / Matilda Mroz Mroz, Matilda 287
- 21 The Slow Road to Europe: the Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen / Michael Gott Gott, Michael 299
- 22 Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema / Rob Stone Stone, Rob, Paul Cooke Cooke, Paul 312
- Part I. Historicising slow cinema
- Part II. Contextualizing slow cinema
- Part III. Slow cinema and labour
- Part IV. Slow cinema and the non-human
- Part V. The ethics and politics of slowness
- Part VI. Beyond 'slow cinema'