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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, Bela Tarr, Avi Mograbi, Tariq Teguia, Philippe Grandrieux, Daniele Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub andSharunas 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 Cinemademonstrates the importance of place and its aesthetic potentialitiesin film.

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Author:   Corinne Maury (Associate Professor of Film Studies, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès) ,  Francis Guevremont
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781399501408

ISBN 10:   1399501402
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 August 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I: Chantal Akerman: Cloistered Nomadism 1. Blow Up My Town, everyday rowdiness 2. Jeanne Dielman: neurotic seclusion 3. From cities to walls, a local change of scenery Part II: The House as a Place of Declarations and Meditations 4. Avi Mograbi, The Political Workshop 5. A Moving Inwardness: Alexander Sokurov’s A Humble Life Part III: The Forest: From Sensory Environment to Economic Site 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 Part IV: The Banlieue: Off-centred, Isolated10. Pasolini’s Vacant Lots 11. Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth: From the Slums to the Sanitised Apartment 12. Tariq Teguia and the Algerian Banlieue: A Field of Ruins Part V: The Strangeness of Places and the Solitude of Men 14. Bruno Dumont’s Hamlets: Cursed and Isolated Places 15. Béla Tarr, Waiting Behind Barricades 16. Sharunas Bartas’ Undergrounds Epilogue Table of figuresBibliography

Reviews

Corinne 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

Corinne 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 Information

Dr Corinne Maury is Associate Professor of Film Studies at the Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. She is the author of several books in French, including Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce 1080 Bruxelles, de Chantal Akerman (2020), Du parti pris des lieux dans le cinéma contemporain (2018), Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du réel (2011); L'Attrait de la pluie (2013). She is the co-editor of Filmer les frontières (2016), Béla Tarr, De la colère au tourment (2016), Raymonde Carasco et Régis Hébraud: à l’œuvre (2016) and Écrire l’analyse de film. Un enjeu pour l’esthétique (2019).

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