Slow Movies : Countering the Cinema of Action / Ira Jaffe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaffe, Ira, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

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

Motion pictures--Technique.

Local Subjects:

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--Plots, themes, etc.

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

Motion pictures--Technique.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

Deadpan

Stillness

Long Shot

Wait Time

Drift and Resistance

Death-Drive, Life-Drive

Rebellion's Limits

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231850636

0231850638

OCLC:

984642823