Format:
1 online resource (viii, 193 pages)
,
illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781399501415
,
9781399501422
,
9781399501392
Uniform Title:
Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain
Content:
What purpose does place serve in films? When it is not just a background to actions, or indistinguishable from the landscape, or a simple space to walk through, a kind of neutral territory? Such filmmakers as Chantal Akerman, Lisandro Alonso, Pedro Costa, Bruno Dumont, Avi Mograbi, Philippe Grandrieux, and Sharunas Bartas chose not to focus solely the cinematic narration on the fate of the characters. They showed telluric spatialities, inhabited territories, existential matrices where ways of doing and of living were mobilised, where forces of emancipation and existential weaknesses were carried out. Welcoming rooms, remarkable transitions, havens for individual and communal destinies: place in cinema sometimes implies the insecurity of an unfinished project, sometimes the solidity of fortifications. This book demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film.
Note:
Translated from the French. - Previously issued in print: 2022. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781399501392
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781399501392
Language:
English
