Slow movies : countering the cinema of action / Ira Jaffe.

?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...

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Main Author: Jaffe, Ira, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Wallflower Press, ©2014.
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Summary:?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 radi
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231850636
0231850638
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Dissertation Note:"Slow Movies investigates movies by acclaimed directors who over the past three decades have challenged mainstream cinema's reliance on motion and action."