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Author:   Anik Sarkar ,  Jayjit Sarkar
Publisher:   Liverpool University Press
Imprint:   Liverpool University Press
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9781837645138

ISBN 10:   1837645132
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   02 February 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Acknowledgements Introduction Open Cinema: The Films and Installations of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Anik Sarkar and Jayjit Sarkar Time 1.Time, Social Reproduction and the Precarious Body in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Patricia Sequeira Brás 2.Representing Memory through Slowness: the Time-Images of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century and Cemetery of Splendour Francesco Quario Non-human 3.Stray Dogs and Strange Beasts: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Queer Animal Ethics Duncan Caillard 4.Imagining the Nonhuman in the cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Çağatay Emre Doğan Mind 5.The Stillness Wandering Within: Notes on the Caesura of the Cinematic Image in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive Project Elizabeth Sikes 6.Dreams, Abstractions and Spectatorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Films and Videos Alessandro Ferraro 7.EFFULGENCES Particles in Motion: Cycling the Mindscapes of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Jeffner Allen Forms and Representations 8.Transmedia Plot in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive Jade de Cock de Rameyen 9.Home Away From Home: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Filmed Images of Home and Homeland Envisioned Palita Chunsaengchan 10.Between an Erased Past and an Uncertain Future: Hybrid Forms in the Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Sivaranjini 11.Post-Interstitial Authorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema Anchalee Chaiworaporn Note on the Contributors Index

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Anik Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Salesian College Siliguri. He has contributed to books such as Environmental Postcolonialism (Lexington Books, 2021), Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2022) and the book shortlisted for the recent BSLS book prize: Science Fiction in India (Bloomsbury, 2022). He recently published “In Search of a Pathographical Ecopoetics” in the Journal of Ecohumanism, and has a forthcoming monograph titled Fabulating Ecologies (Lexington Books). Jayjit Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of the monograph Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019). He is also the co-editor of books such as Border and Bordering: Poetics, Politics, Precariousness (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2020) and The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021). He has also written for India Independent Films Live Wire, Newslaundry, and We the World magazine.

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