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Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness
Song Hwee Lim
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Description for Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness
Hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture.
Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, ... Read more
How can we qualify slowness in cinema? What is the relationship between a cinema of slowness and a wider socio-cultural “slow movement”? A body of films that shares a propensity toward slowness has emerged in many parts of the world over the past two decades. This is the first book to examine the concept of cinematic slowness and address this fascinating phenomenon in contemporary film culture.
Providing a critical investigation into questions of temporality, materiality, and aesthetics, and examining concepts of authorship, cinephilia, and nostalgia, Song Hwee Lim offers insight into cinematic slowness through the films of the Malaysian-born, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Univ of Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824836849
SKU
V9780824836849
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About Song Hwee Lim
Song Hwee Lim is senior lecturer in film studies at the University of Exeter, UK.
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