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The sense of place in contemporary cinema /Corinne Maury ; translated by Francis Guévremont.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 193 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781399501415
  • 9781399501422
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .S467 2022
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Contents:
2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion -- 3. From cities to walls: a local change of scenery -- 4. Avi Mograbi: the political workshop -- 5. A moving inwardness: Alexander Sokurov's A Humble Life -- 6. Philippe Grandrieux's forest-matter: a multisensory place -- 7. Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest: the march of bodies, the spiritual journey -- 8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "sacred sobriety" of the undergrowth -- 9. Lisandro Alonso's La Libertad and Los Muertos: the dual forest -- 10. Pasolini's wastelands -- 11. Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth: from the slums to the sanitised apartment -- 12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: a field of ruins -- 13. Bruno Dumont's hamlets: cursed and isolated places -- 14. Béla Tarr: waiting behind barricades -- 15. Sharunas Bartas' undergrounds.
Subject: "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, Béla Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub 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 mobilized, 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. The Sense of Place in Cinema demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film."--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

1. Blow Up My Town: everyday rowdiness -- 2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion -- 3. From cities to walls: a local change of scenery -- 4. Avi Mograbi: the political workshop -- 5. A moving inwardness: Alexander Sokurov's A Humble Life -- 6. Philippe Grandrieux's forest-matter: a multisensory place -- 7. Naomi Kawase's The Mourning Forest: the march of bodies, the spiritual journey -- 8. Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub: The "sacred sobriety" of the undergrowth -- 9. Lisandro Alonso's La Libertad and Los Muertos: the dual forest -- 10. Pasolini's wastelands -- 11. Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth: from the slums to the sanitised apartment -- 12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: a field of ruins -- 13. Bruno Dumont's hamlets: cursed and isolated places -- 14. Béla Tarr: waiting behind barricades -- 15. Sharunas Bartas' undergrounds.

"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, Béla Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub 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 mobilized, 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. The Sense of Place in Cinema demonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialities in film."--

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