Slow movies : countering the cinema of action / Ira Jaffe.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Jaffe, Ira, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Production and direction--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Technique.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

Motion pictures--Production and direction.

Physical Description:

v, 198 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Wallflower Press, [2014]

Summary:

"In all film there is the desire to capture the motion of life, to refuse immobility," Agnès 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, Béla 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, and action gives way to emptiness if not death. Yet the cinematic artistry and integrity of slow movies is here seen to foster a rare beauty and sense of affirmation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Deadpan: Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man and The Second Circle 15

Stillness: Elephant and Mother and Son 45

Long Shot: Distant and Climates 67

Wait Time: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Safe 87

Drift and Resistance: Liverpool and Ossos 109

Death-Drive, Life-Drive: A Talking Picture, Taste of Cherry, Five Dedicated to Ozu and Still Life 127

Rebellion's Limits: The Turin Horse, Werckmeister Harmonies and 12:08 East of Bucharest 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed directors who over the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action."

ISBN:

0231169787

9780231169783

9780231169790

0231169795

OCLC:

863199950