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Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

Hardcover • 2014 • English

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

By Song Hwee Lim

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About the book

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 exam...Show more

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ISBN

9780824836849

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness

Format

Hardcover

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