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Cinematic encounters 2 : portraits and polemics / Jonathan Rosenbaum Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2019.
Call No: 670 ROSAuthor: Rosenbaum, Jonathan Edition: 2019Place: Urbana, Chicago, and SpringfieldPublisher: University of Illinois PressPubDate: 2019PhysDes: 312 pages ; 23cmSubject: DIRECTORS ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; BROOKS, JAMES L. ; BUNUEL, LUIS ; DEMY, JACQUES ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; GIANVITO, JOHN ; JARMUSCH, JIM ; LEWIS, JERRY ; LINKLATER, RICHARD ; MADDIN, GUY ; MAY, ELAINE ; OLIVEIRA, MANOEL DE ; OLMI, ERMANNO ; YASUJIRO OZU ; POTTER, SALLY ; RAPPAPORT, MARK ; RESNAIS, ALAIN ; RIVETTE, JACQUES ; TARR, BELA ; MING-LIANG, TSAI ; WELLES, ORSON Summary: Eschewing the idea of film reviewer-as-solitary-expert, Jonathan Rosenbaum continues to advance his belief that a critic's ideal role is to mediate and facilitate our public discussion of cinema. Portraits and Polemics presents debate as an important form of cinematic encounter whether one argues with filmmakers themselves, on behalf of their work, or with one's self.
Rosenbaum takes on filmmakers like Chantal Akerman, Richard Linklater, Manoel De Oliveira, Mark Rappaport, Elaine May, and Béla Tarr. He also engages, implicitly and explicitly, with other writers, arguing with Pauline Kael—and Wikipedia—over Jacques Demy, with the Hollywood Reporter and Variety reviewers of Jarmusch’s The Limits of Control, with David Thomson about James L. Brooks, and with many American and English film critics about misrepresented figures from Jerry Lewis to Yasujiro Ozu to Orson Welles. Throughout, Rosenbaum mines insights, pursues pet notions, and invites readers to join the fray. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780252084386Contents: Introduction: In Defense of Polemical Criticism -- 1. Chantal Akerman -- 2. James L. Brooks -- 3. Luis Buñuel -- 4. Pedro Costa -- 5. André Delvaux -- 6. Jacques Demy -- 7. Carl Dreyer -- 8. John Gianvito -- 9. Jim Jarmusch -- 10. Jia Zhangke -- 11. Jerry Lewis -- 12. Richard Linklater -- 13. Guy Maddin -- 14. Elaine May -- 15. Manoel de Oliveira -- 16. Ermanno Olmi -- 17. Yasujiro Ozu -- 18. Sally Potter -- 19. Mark Rappaport -- 20. Alain Resnais -- 21. Jacques Rivette -- 22. Béla Tarr -- 23. Tsai Ming-liang -- 24. Orson Welles – Index.
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Cruisy, sleepy, melancholy : sexual disorientation in the films of Tsai Ming-liang / Nicholas de Villiers Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Call No: 81 TSA VILAuthor: de Villiers, Nicholas Edition: 2022Place: MinneapolisPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPubDate: 2022PhysDes: xiv, 220 pages : illustrated ; 21.5 cmSubject: TSAI, MING LIANG ; BU SAN [GOODBYE, DRAGON INN] (TZ, Ming-liang Tsai, 2003) ; HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE CINEMA ; VIVE L'AMOUR [AI QING WAN SUI] (TZ, Tsai Ming-liang, 1994) ; WAYWARD CLOUD, THE [TIAN BIAN YI DUO YUN] (TZ/FR, Tsai Ming-liang, 2005) ; DONG (TZ/FR, Tsai Ming-liang, 1998) ; NI NEI PIEN CHI TIEN (FR/TZ, Tsai Ming-Liang, 2001) ; STRAY DOGS [JIAO YOU] (TZ/FR, Tsai Ming Liang, 2013) Summary: A critical figure in queer Sinophone cinema—and the first director ever commissioned to create a film for the permanent collection of the Louvre—Tsai Ming-liang is a major force in Taiwan cinema and global moving image art. Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy offers a fascinating, systematic method for analyzing the queerness of Tsai’s films.
Nicholas de Villiers argues that Tsai expands and revises the notion of queerness by engaging with the sexuality of characters who are migrants, tourists, diasporic, or otherwise displaced. Through their lack of fixed identities, these characters offer a clear challenge to the binary division between heterosexuality and homosexuality, as well as the Orientalist binary division of Asia versus the West. Ultimately, de Villiers explores how Tsai’s films help us understand queerness in terms of spatial, temporal, and sexual disorientation.
Conceiving of Tsai’s cinema as an intertextual network, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy makes an important addition to scholarly work on Tsai in English. It draws on extensive interviews with the director, while also offering a complete reappraisal of Tsai’s body of work. Contributing to queer film theory and the aesthetics of displacement, Cruisy, Sleepy, Melancholy reveals striking connections between sexuality, space, and cinema. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781517913182
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Goodbye, Dragon Inn / Nick Pinkerton Australia: Fireflies Press, 2021.
Call No: 79 GOO PINAuthor: Pinkerton, Nick Edition: 2021Place: AustraliaPublisher: Fireflies PressPubDate: 2021PhysDes: xiii, 216 ages ; 15 cmSeries: Decadent Editions, 2003Subject: BU SAN [GOODBYE, DRAGON INN] (TZ, Ming-liang Tsai, 2003) ISBN: 9783981918670Contents: Is cinema really dying? As movie houses close and corporations dominate, the art form is at risk of changing beyond recognition. In this wide-ranging and elegiac essay, Nick Pinkerton reflects upon Tsai Ming-liang’s 2003 film Goodbye, Dragon Inn, a modern classic haunted by the ghosts and portents of a culture in flux.
About the film - In an old Taipei movie theatre, on the eve of a ‘temporary closing’, King Hu’s 1967 wuxia classic Dragon Inn plays to a dwindling audience. Lonely souls cruise the aisles for companionship while two actors from Hu’s film watch themselves writ large, perhaps for the last time.
About the author - Nick Pinkerton is a Cincinnati-born, Brooklyn-based writer focused on moving image-based art. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Sight & Sound, Artforum, Frieze, Reverse Shot, The Guardian, 4Columns, The Baffler, Rhizome, Harper’s and the Village Voice, among other venues, and he operates the Substack newsletter Employee Picks.
Praise for the book - ‘A brilliant concept brilliantly executed, Tsai Ming-liang’s deceptively modest Goodbye, Dragon Inn is among the most resonant films of the still young twenty-first century. Its exegetist Nick Pinkerton ranks among the top film critics who have emerged this side of the millennium. The book is a fortuitous match – engagingly personal, securely erudite, stylish, and very, very smart.’ - J. Hoberman
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Slow cinema / edited by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Call No: 631.11 SLOAuthor: de Luca, Tiago ; Jorge, Nuno Barradas Edition: 2016Place: EdinburghPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPubDate: 2016PhysDes: xx, 332 pages ; illustrated : 24 cmSubject: TIME IN FILMS ; DREYER, CARL TH. ; STRAUB, JEAN-MARIE ; HUILLET, DANIELE ; MING-LIANG, TSAI ; WEERASETHAKUL, APICHATPONG ; KIAROSTAMI, ABBAS ; TARR, BELA ; BENNING, JAMES ; WARHOL, ANDY ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; CONRAD, TONY ; INNOCENCE (FR, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, 2004) ; MEEK'S CUTOFF (US, Kelly Reichardt, 2011) ; JAPON (MX/GG/NE/SP, Carlos Reygadas, 2002) Summary: In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas steeped in contemplation, silence and duration have garnered significant critical attention in recent years, thus resonating with a larger sociocultural movement whose aim is to rescue extended temporal structures from the accelerated tempo of late-capitalism. Although not part of a structured film movement, directors such as Carlos Reygadas, Tsai Ming-liang, Béla Tarr, Pedro Costa and Kelly Reichardt have been largely subsumed under the term ‘slow cinema’. But what exactly is slow cinema? Is it a strictly recent phenomenon or an overarching cinematic tradition? And how exactly do slow cinemas interrelate on an aesthetic, technical and political level?
Deploying the concept of slowness as an umbrella category under which filmmakers and traditions from different historical and geographical backgrounds can fruitfully converge, this innovative collection of essays interrogates and expands the frameworks that have generally informed slow cinema debates. Repositioning the term in a broader theoretical space, the book combines an array of fine-grained studies that will provide valuable insight into the notion of slowness in the cinema, while mapping out past and contemporary slow films across the globe. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780748696048Contents: Table Of Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword / Julian Stringer -- Introduction: From Slow Cinema to Slow Cinemas / Tiago De Luca & Nuno Barradas Jorge -- Part I: Historicising Slow Cinema -- 1: The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity / Lúcia 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 Danièle 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: If These Walls Could Speak: From Slowness to Stillness in the Cinema of Jia Zhangke / Cecília 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 Japón 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: Béla Tarr: The Poetics and the Politics of Fiction / Jacques Rancière -- 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 / Asbjørn Grønstad -- Part VI: Beyond ‘Slow Cinema’ -- 20: Performing Evolution: Immersion / Unfolding and Lucile Hadžihalilovic’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
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