Slow cinema

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SLOW CINEMA

Copyright

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Contributors

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA

Foreword

Introduction: From Slow Cinema to Slow Cinemas

1. The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity

2. The Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer's Film Style

3. The First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time

4. 'The attitude of smoking and observing': Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

5. Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

6. Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cinema

7. Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz

8. Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff

9. If These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke

10. Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema's Labouring Body, the Political Spectator, and the Queer

11. Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room

12. Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing's Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

13. 'Slow Sounds': Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin's Oxhide and Oxhide II

14. It's About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos

15. Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas's Japón and Lisandro Alonso's Los muertos

16. The Sleeping Spectator: Non-human Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami's Five: Dedicated to Ozu

17. Béla Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction

18. Ethics of the Landscape Shot: AKA Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals

19. Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration

20. Performing Evolution: Immersion, Unfolding and Lucile Hadžihalilovic´'s Innocence. 21. The Slow Road to Europe: the Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen

22. Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema

Index