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,
Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang. Through detailed analysis of
aspects of stillness and silence in cinema, Lim delineates the
strategies by which slowness in film can be constructed. By drawing
on writings on cinephilia and the films of directors such as Abbas
Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, he makes a
passionate case for a slow cinema that calls for renewed attention
to the image and to the experience of time in film. Tsai Ming-Liang
and a Cinema of Slowness will speak to readers with an interest in
art cinema, queer studies, East Asian culture, and the question of
time. In an age of unrelenting acceleration of pace both in film
and in life, this book invites us to pause and listen, to linger
and look, and, above all, to take things slowly.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Hawaii Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2014 |
| Firstpublished: |
February 2014 |
| Authors: |
Song Hwee Lim
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
| Pages: |
216 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8248-3684-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-8248-3684-7 |
| Barcode: |
9780824836849 |
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