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Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action
Ira Jaffe
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169790
SKU
V9780231169790
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About Ira Jaffe
Ira Jaffe is founder and former chair of the Department of Cinematic Arts at the University of New Mexico. He is author of Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films (2008) and co-editor of Redirecting the Gaze: Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World (1999).
Reviews for Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action
Superb... A brilliant writer, Jaffe deftly... [gives] the reader a window into a much wider world of cinema. Yet another excellent film book from Wallflower Press... commands the reader's attention. Choice