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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Luca, Tiago
• Barradas Jorge, Nuno
• Brady, Martin
• Brown, William
• Cooke, Paul
• Davis, Glyn
• Gorfinkel, Elena
• Gott, Michael
• Grønstad, Asbjørn
• Jorge, Nuno Barradas
• Lam, Stephanie
• Lim, Song Hwee
• Lovatt, Philippa
• Luca, Tiago de
• Mello, Cecília
• Mroz, Matilda
• Nagib, Lúcia
• Rancière, Jacques
• Remes, Justin
• Ross, Julian
• Schoonover, Karl
• Smith, Patrick Brian
• Stone, Rob
• Stringer, Julian
• Thomson, C. Claire

Titel

Slow Cinema

Ist Teil von

• Traditions in World Cinema : TWC

Ort / Verlag

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema historyIn 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, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late-capitalism. Although not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Kelly Reichardt have been largely subsumed under the term ‘slow cinema’.-
• But what exactly is slow cinema? Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level?Deploying the concept of slowness as an umbrella category under which filmmakers and traditions from different historical and geographical backgrounds can fruitfully converge, this innovative collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have generally informed slow cinema debates.-
• Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-grained studies that will provide valuable insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe.Key featuresEstablishes the significance of slow cinema studies in film scholarshipIlluminates the interconnectedness of past and present-day world cinemas through the methodological and comparative prism of slownessProvides in-depth critical analyses of a wide variety of world cinema traditions and practicesIntervenes in, and contributes to, key debates in current film scholarship: new technologies, art cinema, realism ContributorsMartin Brady teaches in the German and Film Studies Departments at King’s College London William Brown is Senior Lecturer in Film at the University of Roehampton,-