Durational Cinema - A Short History of Long Films (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)

This book argues for a durational cinema that is distinct from slow cinema, and outlines the history of its three main waves: the New York avant-garde of the 1960s, the European art cinema in the years after 1968, and the international cinema of gallery spaces as well as film festivals since the 1990s. Figures studied include Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Chantal Akerman, Marguerite Duras, Claude Lanzmann, James Benning, Kevin Jerome Everson, Lav Diaz, and Wang Bing.Durational cinema is predominantly minimal, but has from the beginning also included a more encompassing or encyclopedic kind of filmmaking. Durational cinema is characteristically representational, and converges on certain topics (the Holocaust, deindustrialization, the experience of the working class and other marginalized people), but has no one meaning, signifying differently at different moments and in different hands. Warhol's durational cinema of subtraction is quite different from Jacobs's durational cinema of social disgust, while Lav Diaz' durational sublime is quite different from Kevin Jerome Everson's unblinking studies of African-American working people.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Experimental Film and Artists' Moving Image
Release date:	December 2022
First published:	2022
Authors:	Michael Walsh
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	289
Edition:	1st ed. 2022
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-076091-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
LSN:	3-03-076091-X
Barcode:	9783030760915

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