The sense of place in contemporary cinema / Corinne Maury ; translated by Francis Guévremont.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maury, Corinne, author.

Contributor:

Guévremont, Francis, translator.

Standardized Title:

Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Setting and scenery.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, Avi Mograbi, Philippe Grandrieux, and Sharunas Bartas chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the fate of the characters. They showed telluric spatialities, inhabited territories, existential matrices where ways of doing and of living were mobilised, where forces of emancipation and existential weaknesses were carried out. Welcoming rooms, remarkable transitions, havens for individual and communal destinies: place in cinema sometimes implies the insecurity of an unfinished project, sometimes the solidity of fortifications. This book demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism

CHAPTER 1 Blow Up My Town: Everyday Rowdiness

CHAPTER 2 Jeanne Dielman: Neurotic Seclusion

CHAPTER 3 From Cities to Walls: A Local Change of Scenery

Part 2 The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations

CHAPTER 4 Avi Mograbi: The Political Workshop

CHAPTER 5 A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life

Part 3 The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site

CHAPTER 6 Philippe Grandrieux’s Forest-matter: A Multisensory Place

CHAPTER 7 Naomi Kawase’s The Mourning Forest: The March of Bodies, the Spiritual Journey

CHAPTER 8 Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The ‘Sacred Sobriety’ of the Undergrowth

CHAPTER 9 Lisandro Alonso’s La Libertad and Los Muertos: The Dual Forest

Part 4 The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated

CHAPTER 10 Pasolini’s Wastelands

CHAPTER 11 Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment

CHAPTER 12 Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruin

Part 5 The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men

CHAPTER 13 Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places

CHAPTER 14 Béla Tarr: Waiting behind Barricades

CHAPTER 15 Sharunas Bartas’s Undergrounds

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781399501422

1399501429

9781399501415

1399501410

OCLC:

1371574281