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OverviewWhat 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, B�la Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Dani�le 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Corinne Maury , Francis GuevremontPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 9781399501392ISBN 10: 1399501399 Pages: 198 Publication Date: 31 October 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsCorinne Maury renews film studies in depth, revealing the inseparable aesthetic and political perspective of a cinematographic creation in tune with our tormented history. The Sense of Place in Contemporary Cinema is a truly engaged book that makes space an operator of duration, where images of spaces promote the conquest of an emancipated time or in the process of being so. --Dork Zabunyan, University of Paris Author InformationCorinne Maury, Associate Professor of Film Studies, Universite de Toulouse Jean Jaures. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |