Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action by Ira Jaffe, ISBN-13: 978-0231169790
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- Publisher: Wallflower Press (March 25, 2014)
- Language: English
- 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780231169790
- ISBN-13: 978-0231169790
“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 emotion is repressed along with motion; editing and dialogue yield to stasis and contemplation; action surrenders to emptiness if not death.
Ira Jaffe is founder and former chair of the Cinematic Arts Department at the University of New Mexico.
He is the author of “Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action” (Wallflower/Columbia University Press, 2014) and “Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) as well as co-editor (with Diana Robin) of “Redirecting the Gaze. Gender, Theory and Cinema in the Third World” (State University of New York Press, 1999).
His essay titled “Errol Morris’s Forms of Control” appears in “Three Documentary Filmmakers” (ed. William Rothman, State University of New York Press, 2009); other essays include “Citizen Kane: Film as the Narration of Space” in “Perspectives on Citizen Kane” (ed. Ronald Gottesman, G.K. Hall & Co., 1996).
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