Slow Cinema

Illustrations; Foreword, Julian Stringer; Introduction: From Slow Cinema to Slow Cinemas, Tiago De Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge; Part I: Historicising Slow Cinema: 1: The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity, Lacia Nagib; 2: The Slow Pulse of the Era: Carl Th. Dreyer's Film Style, C. Claire Thomson; 3: The First Durational Cinema and the Real of Time, Michael Walsh; 4: The Attitude of- Smoking and Observing': Slow Film and Politics in the Cinema Of Jean-Marie Straub and -Daniele Huillet, Martin Brady; Part II: Contextualising Slow Cinema: 5: Temporal Aesthetics of Drifting: Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness, Song Hwee Lim; 6: Stills and Stillness in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Cinema, Glyn Davis; 7: Melancholia: The Long, Slow Cinema of Lav Diaz, William Brown; 8: Exhausted Drift: Austerity, Dispossession and the Politics of Slow in Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff, Elena Gorfinkel; 9: lf These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke, Cecilia Mello; Part III: Slow Cinema And Labour: 10: Wastrels of Time: Slow Cinema's Labouring Body, The Political Spectator, and the Queer, Karl Schoonover; 11: Living Daily, Working Slowly: Pedro Costa's in Vanda's Room, Nuno Barradas Jorge; 12: Working/Slow: Cinematic Style as Labour in Wang Bing's Tie Xi Qu: West Of The Tracks, Patrick Brian Smith; 13: 'Slow Sounds': Duration, Audition and Labour in Liu Jiayin's Oxhide and Oxhide II, Philippa Lovatt; Part IV: Slow Cinema and the Nonhuman: 14: It's About Time: Slow Aesthetics in Experimental Ecocinema and Nature Cam Videos, Stephanie Lam; 15: Natural Views: Animals, Contingency and Death in Carlos Reygadas's Japon and Lisandro Alonso's Los Muertos, Tiago de Luca; 16: The Sleeping Spectator: Nonhuman Aesthetics in Abbas Kiarostami's Five: Dedicated to Ozu, Justin Remes; Part V: The Ethics and Politics of Slowness: 17: Bela Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction, Jacques Ranciere; 18: Ethics of the Landscape Shot: A.K.A Serial Killer and James Benning's Portraits of Criminals, Julian Ross; 19: Slow Cinema and the Ethics of Duration, Asbjorn Gronstad; Part VI: Beyond 'Slow Cinema': 20: Performing Evolution: Immersion, Unfolding and Lucile Hadiihalilovic's Innocence, Matilda Mroz; 21: The Slow Road to Europe: The Politics and Aesthetics of Stalled Mobility in Hermakono and Morgen, Michael Gott; 22: Crystallising the Past: Slow Heritage Cinema, Rob Stone and Paul Cooke.