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Slow Cinema

Slow Cinema

Paperback

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

Film StudiesFilm Guides & Reference

ISBN10: 0748696040
ISBN13: 9780748696048
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 11 2015
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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?

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