Slow Movies - Countering the Cinema of Action

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16978-3
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnes Varda has noted. But to capture the reality of human experience, cinema must fasten on stillness and inaction as much as motion. Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed international directors who in the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action. More than other realist art cinema, slow movies by Lisandro Alonso, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Pedro Costa, Jia Zhang-ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Cristian Mungiu, Alexander Sokurov, Bela Tarr, Gus Van Sant and others radically adhere to space-times in which emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jaffe, Ira

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

IntroductionDeadpan: Stranger Than Paradise, Deadman and The Second CircleStillness: Elephant and Mother and SonLong Shot: Distant and ClimatesWait Time: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and SafeDrift and Resistance: Liverpool and OssosDeath-Drive, Life-Drive: A Talking Picture, Taste of Cherry, Five Dedicated to Ozu and Still LifeRebellion's Limits: The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies and 12:08 East of BucharestNotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Ira Jaffe is founder and former chair of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is author of Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films (2008) and co-editor of Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World (1999).