Slow Cinema

Tiago de Luca; Nuno Barradas Jorge

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Slow Cinema

Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge

In the series Traditions in World Cinema

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748696031

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About this book

Situates, theorises and maps out cinematic slowness within contemporary global film production and across world cinema history

In 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 features

Establishes the significance of slow cinema studies in film scholarship
Illuminates the interconnectedness of past and present-day world cinemas through the methodological and comparative prism of slowness
Provides in-depth critical analyses of a wide variety of world cinema traditions and practices
Intervenes in, and contributes to, key debates in current film scholarship: new technologies, art cinema, realism

Contributors

Martin 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, London
Paul Cooke is Professor of German Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds
Glyn Davis is Chancellor’s Fellow and Reader in Screen Studies at the University of Edinburgh
Elena Gorfinkel is Assistant Professor of Art History and Film Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Michael Gott is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in French and Francophone literature and cinema, European Studies, and film
Asbjørn Grønstad is Professor of Visual Culture at the University of Bergen, where he is also founding director of the Nomadikon Center for Visual Culture
Song Hwee Lim is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Exeter
Stephanie Lam is a PhD candidate in the Film and Visual Studies program at Harvard University
Philippa Lovatt is a Lecturer in Media and Communications at the University of Stirling and also teaches at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City
Cecília Mello is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Film, Radio and Television, University of São Paulo, and FAPESP Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil
Matilda Mroz is Senior Lecturer in Film and Visual Culture at the University of Greenwich
Lúcia Nagib is Professor of Film at the University of Reading
Jacques Rancière is Professor Emeritus at the Université de Paris (St. Denis)
Justin Remes is an assistant professor of film studies at Iowa State University
Julian Ross is a researcher, curator and writer based in Amsterdam
Karl Schoonover is Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick
Patrick Brian Smith is a Frederick H. Lowy Doctoral Fellow in the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University
Rob Stone is Professor of European Film at the University of Birmingham and Director of B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies
Julian Stringer is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK
C. Claire Thomson is a Senior Lecturer in Scandinavian Film at UCL
Michael Walsh is Associate Professor, University of Hartford

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
FOREWORD Julian Stringer Publicly Available Download PDF	xix
INTRODUCTION: FROM SLOW CINEMA TO SLOW CINEMAS Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1 HISTORICISING SLOW CINEMA
1. THE POLITICS OF SLOWNESS AND THE TRAPS OF MODERNITY Lúcia Nagib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. THE SLOW PULSE OF THE ERA: CARL TH. DREYER’S FILM STYLE C. Claire Thomson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. THE FIRST DURATIONAL CINEMA AND THE REAL OF TIME Michael Walsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. ‘THE ATTITUDE OF SMOKING AND OBSERVING’: SLOW FILM AND POLITICS IN THE CINEMA OF JEAN-MARIE STRAUB AND DANIÈLE HUILLET Martin Brady Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
PART II CONTEXTUALISING SLOW CINEMA
5. TEMPORAL AESTHETICS OF DRIFTING: TSAI MING-LIANG AND A CINEMA OF SLOWNESS Song Hwee Lim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. STILLS AND STILLNESS IN APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL’S CINEMA Glyn Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
7. MELANCHOLIA: THE LONG, SLOW CINEMA OF LAV DIAZ William Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
8. EXHAUSTED DRIFT: AUSTERITY, DISPOSSESSION AND THE POLITICS OF SLOW IN KELLY REICHARDT’S MEEK’S CUTOFF Elena Gorfinkel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
9. IF THESE WALLS COULD SPEAK: FROM SLOWNESS TO STILLNESS IN THE CINEMA OF JIA ZHANGKE Cecília Mello Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
PART III SLOW CINEMA AND LABOUR
10. WASTRELS OF TIME: SLOW CINEMA’S LABOURING BODY, THE POLITICAL SPECTATOR AND THE QUEER Karl Schoonover Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
11. LIVING DAILY, WORKING SLOWLY: PEDRO COSTA’S IN VANDA’S ROOM Nuno Barradas Jorge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
12. WORKING/SLOW: CINEMATIC STYLE AS LABOUR IN WANG BING’S TIE XI QU: WEST OF THE TRACKS Patrick Brian Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	180
13. ‘SLOW SOUNDS’: DURATION, AUDITION AND LABOUR IN LIU JIAYIN’S OXHIDE AND OXHIDE II Philippa Lovatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
PART IV SLOW CINEMA AND THE NON-HUMAN
14. IT’S ABOUT TIME: SLOW AESTHETICS IN EXPERIMENTAL ECOCINEMA AND NATURE CAM VIDEOS Stephanie Lam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
15. NATURAL VIEWS: ANIMALS, CONTINGENCY AND DEATH IN CARLOS REYGADAS’S JAPÓN AND LISANDRO ALONSO’S LOS MUERTOS Tiago de Luca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
16. THE SLEEPING SPECTATOR: NON-HUMAN AESTHETICS IN ABBAS KIAROSTAMI’S FIVE: DEDICATED TO OZU Justin Remes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
PART V THE ETHICS AND POLITICS OF SLOWNESS
17. BÉLA TARR: THE POETICS AND THE POLITICS OF FICTION Jacques Rancière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
18. ETHICS OF THE LANDSCAPE SHOT: AKA SERIAL KILLER AND JAMES BENNING’S PORTRAITS OF CRIMINALS Julian Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
19. SLOW CINEMA AND THE ETHICS OF DURATION Asbjørn Grønstad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
PART VI BEYOND ‘SLOW CINEMA’
20. PERFORMING EVOLUTION: IMMERSION, UNFOLDING AND LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIC´ ’S INNOCENCE Matilda Mroz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
21. THE SLOW ROAD TO EUROPE: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF STALLED MOBILITY IN HERMAKONO AND MORGEN Michael Gott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
22. CRYSTALLISING THE PAST: SLOW HERITAGE CINEMA Rob Stone and Paul Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	324

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: December 11, 2015
ISBN: 9780748696031