Slow Movies : Countering the Cinema of Action
by
Ira Jaffe
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0231169795
ISBN-13
9780231169790
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Wallflower Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 25th, 2014
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
306 grams
Dimensions
23.30 x 15.90 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticism
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"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.
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