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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Intro; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Slow Cinema in Context; 1.1 Defining Slow Cinema; 1.2 Global Art Cinema and Slowness; 1.3 A Historical Poetics of Slow Cinema; References; Chapter 2: Béla Tarr: A Nostalgia for Modernism; 2.1 The Long Take: The Dominant and Bazinian Realism; 2.2 Dedramatization, Dead Time and the Descriptive Pause; 2.3 Lingering Movement and Flânerie in Werckmeister Harmonies; 2.4 Framing, Duration and "the Cinephiliac Moment"; 2.5 Nostalgia, Modernism and the Retro-Art-Cinema Style; References; Chapter 3: Tsai Ming-Liang: Less Is Absurd |
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3.1 Taiwan New Cinema and the Rise of the "Festival Film"3.2 Camp Style, Minimalist Form; 3.3 Episodes, Structures, Symbols; 3.4 Theatre of the Absurd and Silent Comedy; 3.5 Nostalgia and Cinephilia in Goodbye, Dragon Inn; References; Chapter 4: Nuri Bilge Ceylan: An Aesthetics of Boredom; 4.1 Yeşilçam and New Turkish Cinema; 4.2 Evolution from an Artisanal Mode of Production; 4.3 Intervention in Yeşilçam and Turkish Film History; 4.4 Boredom, Cinema, Mind Wandering; 4.5 Virtues of the Long Take in Distant and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; References |
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Chapter 5: Epilogue: The Future of Slow CinemaReferences; Index |
| Summary |
This book discusses slow cinema, a contemporary global production trend that has recently gained momentum in film theory and criticism. Slow films dispense with narrative progression in favour of a contemplative mood, which is stretched out to the extreme in order to impel viewers to confront cinematic temporality in all its undivided glory. Despite its critical reputation as an oblique mode of film practice, slow cinema continues to attract, challenge and provoke audiences. Focusing on filmmakers Béla Tarr, Tsai Ming-liang and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, this book identifies nostalgia, absurd humour and boredom as intrinsic dimensions of slow cinema and explores the ways in which these directors negotiate local filmmaking conventions with the demands of a global cinephile niche. As the first study to treat slow cinema both as an aesthetic style and as an institutional discourse, Poetics of Slow Cinema offers an illuminating perspective on the tradition's historical genealogy and envisions it with a Janus-faced disposition in the age of digital technologies--lamenting at once the passing of difficult, ambiguous modernist film and capitalizing on the yearning for its absence |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Slow cinema
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Slow cinema.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319968728 |
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3319968726 |
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